Electronic Democracy: Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs

Rachel Gibson · Andrea Römmele · Steven Ward

jul 2004 · Routledge

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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.

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Rachel 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.