Electronic Democracy

Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs
Herausgeber: Gibson, Rachel; Ward, Steven; Römmele, Andrea

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies within representative democracy, and examines how representative democracies are adapting to new ICTs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138010192
• ISBN-10: 1138010197
• Artikelnr.: 39712311

Autorenporträt

Rachel K. Gibson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Research in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University, Australia. Andrea Römmele is Senior Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Stephen J. Ward is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements 1 Introduction: representative democracy and
the Internet 2 Electronic democracy and the 'mixed polity': symbiosis or
conflict? 3 The citizen as consumer: e-government in the United Kingdom and
the United States 4 Digital parliaments and electronic democracy: a
comparison between the US House, the Swedish Riksdag and the German
Bundestag 5 Digital democracy: ideas, intentions and initiatives in Swedish
local governments 6 Cyber-campaigning grows up: a comparative content
analysis of websites for US Senate and gubernatorial races, 1998-2000 7
Global legal pluralism and electronic democracy 8 Problems@labour: towards
a net-internationalism? 9 Rethinking political participation: experiments
in Internet activism in Australia and Britain 10 Conclusion: the future of
representative democracy in the digital era