ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of transnational technology diffusion has received significant attention among scholars of innovation, technology, and development (cf. Howard and World Information Access Project, 2006; Rogers, 1995; Wilson, 2004). However, cross-national similarities and differences in the adoption and adaptation of information and communication technologies by political actors in the context of democratic politics remain understudied.1
Studies of technology diffusion have demonstrated a transnational flow of notions about technological affordances for political and other human activities, technological
