Beschreibung:
This book analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies within representative democracy, and examines how representative democracies are adapting to new ICTs.
Preface 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 era