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9780415324823

Electronic Democracy: Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415324823

  • ISBN10:

    0415324823

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-03-04
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Electronic Democracyanalyzes the impact of new information and communication technologies within representative democracy, such as political parties, pressure groups, new social movements and executive and legislative bodies. Arguing for the validity of social perspective in theory building, it examines how representative democracies are adapting to new ICTs. It features a number of comparative studies focusing on the UK, the US, Sweden, Germany, Korea and Australia.

Table of Contents

List of figures ix
List of tables x
List of contributors xi
Series editor's preface xii
Preface and acknowledgements xiv
1 Introduction: representative democracy and the Internet
1(16)
RACHEL K. GIBSON, WAINER LUSOLI, ANDREA RÖMMELE AND STEPHEN J. WARD
2 Electronic democracy and the 'mixed polity': symbiosis or conflict?
17(26)
CHARLES D. RAAB AND CHRISTINE BELLAMY
3 The citizen as consumer: e-government in the United Kingdom and the United States
43(27)
CATHERINE NEEDHAM
4 Digital parliaments and electronic democracy: a comparison between the US House, the Swedish Riksdag and the German Bundestag
70(26)
THOMAS ZITTEL
5 Digital democracy: ideas, intentions and initiatives in Swedish local governments
96(20)
JOACHIM ÅSTRÖM
6 Cyber-campaigning grows up: a comparative content analysis of websites for US Senate and gubernatorial races, 1998-2000
116(17)
JENNIFER D. GREER AND MARK E. LAPOINTE
7 Global legal pluralism and electronic democracy
133(20)
OREN PEREZ
8 Problems@labour: towards a net-internationalism?
153(17)
STUART HODKINSON
9 Rethinking political participation: experiments in Internet activism in Australia and Britain
170(24)
JENNY PICKERILL
10 Conclusion: the future of representative democracy in the digital era 194(7)
RACHEL K. GIBSON, ANDREA RÖMMELE AND STEPHEN J. WARD
Index 201

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