Deliberative Democracy , Online Discussion , and Project PICOLA ( Public Informed Citizen Online
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e-Governance: Supporting pragmatic direct deliberative action through online communities of interest
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Authors often report on the limited success of e-Government initiatives in developing nations. Top down, national strategies are developed to target improved government services, but maintain hierarchical, citizen-state conceptions of governance through representative democracy. An alternative conception, direct deliberative democracy, frames the potential role of the internet in governance dif...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009