Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet

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Peter M. Shane
Psychology Press, 2004 - 279 pages
Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being self-evident. The debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy can teach us about the challenges and opportunities for implementing democratic technology initiatives.

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Contents

Technologies for Democracy
3
Unchat Democratic Solution for a Wired World
21
Cyberjuries A Model of Deliberative Democracy?
35
Expanding Dialogue The Internet Public Sphere and Transnational Democracy
47
Electronic Democracy and Democratic Revitalization
63
The Electronic Federalist The Internet and the Eclectic Institutionalization of Democratic Legitimacy
65
Global Governance and Electronic Democracy EPolitics as a Multidimensional Experience
83
Interactivity Equality and the Prospects for Electronic Democracy A Review
95
Digital Deliberation Engaging the Public Through Online Policy Dialogues
155
Participation Deliberative Democracy and the Internet Lessons from a National Forum on Commercial Vehicle Safety
167
InternetBased Political Discourse A Case Study of Electronic Democracy in Hoogeveen
181
The League of Women Voters DemocracyNet DNet An Exercise in Online Civic Engagement
195
Social Psychological and Political Contexts for Electronic Democracy
207
Virtual Distance and Americas Changing Sense of Community
209
Access Skill and Motivation in Online Political Discussion Testing Cyberrealism
225
Virtual Deliberation Knowledge from Online Interaction Versus Ordinary Discussion
239

Online Deliberation Possibilities of the Internet for Deliberative Democracy
109
Hacktivism and the Future of Democratic Discourse
123
ICANN and Electronic Democratic Deficit
141
The Lessons of Electronic Democracy Practice
153
The Challenge of EDemocracy for Political Parties
253
Contributors
267
Index
275
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Peter Shane is Joseph S. Platt - Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he directs the Center for Law, Policy and Social Science

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