E-Government and Corruption in East European Countries Bernard Neuwirth, Veronika Novotna, Stanislav Skapa

The principle of openness and transparency constitutes one of the components of the set of modern principles imposed on public administration. The principles of openness and transparency are related to the requirements to make public administration accessible for outside inspection and supervision and to protect public interest, in order to reduce the probability of corruption and bad government. Accessibility of information and online services of public administration play one of the key roles in bringing public administration closer to the public. In this paper, the authors confirm the relationship between the level of corruption and the degree of implementation of the e-government methods in selected countries of Eastern Europe. Cluster and correlation analysis was used to achieve this aim.