Conference Paper

This chapter evaluates three different types of e‐democracy initiatives at the local level in the Republic of Macedonia, classified by the elements of the democratic process which they work to enhance: transparency, participation, and deliberation. This chapter also attempts to compare e‐democracy initiatives at the local level in the Republic of Macedonia with e‐democracy initiatives in Estonia and Hungary, which are both EU Member States. For the purposes of our research we have chosen Estonia and Hungary as EU Member States on the one hand and the Republic of Macedonia on the other, as an EU candidate country for the following reasons: all three countries recently left their communist past, with weak democratic institutions and a low level of trust in government and a strong commitment to e‐democracy. The methodological approach used in the Comparative Project on Local e‐democracy Initiatives in Europe and North America, served as the basis for our research, which means that this research relies on a tripartite typology of e‐democracy initiatives in order to provide a framework for classification as well as comparative analysis of e‐democracy practices in the Republic for Macedonia, Estonia and Hungary.