ABSTRACT
E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new within the historical context of the United States' deliberative democracy. The advent of the Internet by the early 1990s yielded a plethora of newly emerging technologies that began shifting citizen expectations regarding how government can and should govern. The evolutionary nature of the US government is reflected in part through the usage of technological innovation to ensure the fulfillment of expectations for citizen participation in a deliberative democracy. E-Governance by its nature indicates that the public sector utilizes technological advancements associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are supportive of political actors' pursuit of goal achievement, including those focused on achieving change derived though participatory events. E-Governance's usage of technologies such as the Internet facilitates basic information dissemination to the public leading to more informed decision-making, but more importantly involves means to support complex, dynamic citizen–government interactions capable of affecting change to deliberative democracy.
