Description
Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) 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
Preface and acknowledgements 1 Introduction: representative democracy and the Internet 2 Electronic democracy and the 窶藁ixed polity窶�: symbiosis or conflict? 3 The citizen as consumer: e-government in the United Kingdom and the United States 4 Digital parliaments and electronic democracy: a comparison between the US House, the Swedish Riksdag and the German Bundestag 5 Digital democracy: ideas, intentions and initiatives in Swedish local governments 6 Cyber-campaigning grows up: a comparative content analysis of websites for US Senate and gubernatorial races, 1998窶�2000 7 Global legal pluralism and electronic democracy 8 Problems@labour: towards a net-internationalism? 9 Rethinking political participation: experiments in Internet activism in Australia and Britain 10 Conclusion: the future of representative democracy in the digital era
