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.
Author(s): Rachel K. Gibson, Andrea Rommele, Stephen J. Ward
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 12
Series editor's preface......Page 13
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction: representative democracy and the Internet......Page 18
Electronic democracy and the 'mixed polity': symbiosis or conflict?......Page 34
The citizen as consumer: e-government in the United Kingdom and the United States......Page 60
Digital parliaments and electronic democracy: a comparison between the US House, the Swedish Riksdag and the German Bundestag......Page 87
Digital democracy: ideas, intentions and initiatives in Swedish local governments......Page 113
Cyber-campaigning grows up: a comparative content analysis of websites for US Senate and gubernatorial races, 1998 2000......Page 133
Global legal pluralism and electronic democracy......Page 150
Problems@labour: towards a net-internationalism?......Page 170
Rethinking political participation: experiments in Internet activism in Australia and Britain......Page 187
Conclusion: the future of representative democracy in the digital era......Page 211
Index......Page 218
