ABSTRACT
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
chapter 3|27 pages
The citizen as consumer: e-government in the United Kingdom and the United States
E-government in the United Kingdom
chapter 4|26 pages
Digital parliaments and electronic democracy: a comparison between the US House, the Swedish Riksdag and the German Bundestag
A comparison between the US House,
chapter 6|17 pages
Cyber-campaigning grows up
A comparative content analysis of websites for US Senate and gubernatorial races, 1998–2000
chapter 9|24 pages
Rethinking political participation
Experiments in Internet activism in Australia and Britain
