Digital Democracy : Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age (Paperback)

Part I Digital Democracy: Concepts and Issues1. Digital Democracy 2. Perspectives on citizen democratisation and alienation in the virtual public sphere 3. Democracy and cyberspacePart II Digital Democracy and the State4. Electronic Government: more than just a 'good thing'? A question of ACCESS 5. Tools of Governance 6. Electronic Support of Citizen Participation in Planning Processes 7. Developing Digital Democracy: Evidence from California Municipal Web Pages 8. Closed Circuit Television and Information Age Policy Processes Part III Digital Democracy and Civil Society 9. Transparency through technology: the Internet and political parties 10. Virtual sounding boards: how deliberative is online political discussion? 11. Deweyan systems in the Information Age 12. Cutting out the middle person: from virtual representation to direct deliberation 13. Participation, inclusion, exclusion and netactivism: how the Internet invents new forms of democratic activity. 14. The social shaping of the democracy network (D-Net)