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9780415189224

Democratic Governance and New Technology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415189224

  • ISBN10:

    0415189225

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Drawing on case studies from Denmark, The Netherlands and the UK, this book discusses new in formation and communication technologies. It explores their role in the restructuring of Western democratic political systems.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
List of contributors
ix
Preface xii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: new technology and the `crises' of democracy 1(10)
Jens Hoff
Ivan Horrocks
Pieter Tops
PART I The nature of the problem 11(44)
Technology and social change: the path between technological determinism, social constructivism and new institutionalism
13(20)
Jens Hoff
Modelling electronic democracy: towards democratic discourses for an information age
33(22)
Christine Bellamy
PART II Case studies 55(116)
Danish political parties and new technology: interactive parties or new shop windows?
57(14)
Karl Lofgren
British political parties: continuity and change in the information age
71(16)
Colin Smith
Political websites during the 1998 Parliamentary Elections in the Netherlands
87(14)
Pieter W. Tops
Gerrit Voerman
Marcel Boogers
When democratic strategies clash: the citizen card debate in Denmark
101(8)
Jens Hoff
Jacob Rosenkrands
Relegitimating the democratic polity: the closed circuit television revolution in the UK
109(14)
C. William R. Webster
Electronic service delivery and the democratic relationship between government and its citizens
123(14)
Stavros Zouridis
Victor Bekkers
Infocracy or infopolis? Transparency, autonomy and democracy in an information age
137(16)
Wim Van De Donk
Virtual communities: new public spheres on the internet?
153(18)
Kees Schalken
PART III Conclusion 171(18)
New technology and democratic renewal: the evidence assessed
173(12)
Pieter Tops
Ivan Horrocks
Jens Hoff
Reflections on the models of democracy: cyberdemocracy?
185(4)
Jens Hoff
Ivan Horrocks
Pieter Tops
Index 189

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