Deliberation Disconnected: What It Takes to Improve Civic Competence

The organisational structure of urban environmental stewardship

How is the organisational structure of urban environmental stewardship groups related to the diverse ways that civic stewardship is taking place in urban settings? The findings of the limited number of studies that have explored the organisational structure of civic environmentalism are combined with the research on civic stewardship to answer this question. By bridging these relatively disconn...

The Civic Networking

This article describes and evaluates civic networks in Europe and the USA. These are seen as attempts to use new media technology, particularly the internet, to improve participation in local democratic processes. Various aspects of democratic communication are examined, including information access, preference measurement, deliberation and group mobilization. A wide variety of city-based exper...

Transparent Government Inspections: Using the Internet to Strengthen Civic Competence

Transparency of government inspections enables citizens to pressure companies and public organizations into behaving according to their demands. This paper reports an empirical study into the effects of the increased transparency of inspection services on civic competence. Civic competence is defined as a citizen’s ability to accomplish public tasks. The study indicates that, although citizens ...

Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence

Responsible Conduct in Dual Use Research: Towards an Ethic of Deliberation in the Life Sciences

Kuhlau, F. 2013. Responsible Conduct in Dual Use Research: Towards an Ethic of Deliberation in the Life Sciences. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 866. 95 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8593-1. Life scientists have increasingly been asked to incorporate a dual use responsibility in their research conduct. In this...