Digital democracy discourse and decision making in the Information Age

• Other Authors: Hague, Barry N 1958-, Loader, Brian 1958-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 1999; London
• Subjects: Public administration > Congresses > Data processing; Administrative agencies > Congresses > Data processing; Information technology > Congresses > Political aspects
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• Item Description: Chiefly based on papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Community Informatics Research and Applications unit, University of Teesside, UK
• Physical Description: xvi, 277 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-261) and index
• ISBN: 0415197376 (hbk); 0415197384 (pbk)

Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social scientists and computer scientists.