Taking stock: local e-democracy in Europe and the USA
by Michael N. Peart, Javier Ramos Diaz
International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2008

Abstract: Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are changing democracy yet scholars lack an adequate understanding of what e-democracy means in practice. To that end, we target the most basic unit of democracy, the local level, and take stock of the ways in which governments employ ICTs. We argue that it is useful to classify into three groups the many e-techniques that constitute the practice of e-democracy. This highlights the e-techniques with the most potential to address the problems faced by democracy today and to draw out the theoretical implications. Finally we address the three major criticisms of e-democracy.

Online publication date: Wed, 17-Dec-2008

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