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Overview"""Electronic Democracy"" analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies 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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Gibson , Andrea Römmele , Steven WardPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9780415324823ISBN 10: 0415324823 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 15 January 2004 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements 1 Introduction: representative democracy and the Internet 2 Electronic democracy and the ‘mixed polity’: 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, 1998–2000 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 eraReviewsAuthor InformationRachel K. Gibson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Research in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University, Australia. Andrea Römmele is Senior Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Stephen J. Ward is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |