Abstract:

This paper analyzes the relationship between the government website construction and the government transparency by choosing 126 countylevel government websites in a western province as the object of this empirical study. Therefore, on the basis of evaluations of the current situations of website constructions, the relationship between the website construction and government transparency for each dimension is verified.The results show that in the government website construction, the website column setting, the website accessibility and the access speed, as three dimensions in this study, have significantly positive impacts on government transparency, while the website function navigation does not have a significant impact on government transparency. In addition, the types of websites and GDP, as two controlled variables, also have significant impacts on government transparency. In the meanwhile, there are also obvious differences in transparency for different types of government websites. On the basis of above research findings, scientific and rational suggestions are put forward in this paper.

Keywords: Government website construction, Government transparency, County government websites