Connecting Democracy : Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Online Consultation and Political Communication in the Era of Obama: An Introduction -- A Utopian Scenario -- The Ambiguous Reality of Online Consultations -- Democratic Prospects: An Early View of the Obama Administration -- From the "Obama Moment" to a Larger Perspective -- I Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication -- 2 Democracy, Distance, and Reach: The New Media Landscape -- Political Distance -- The Terms of Consultative Democracy -- Media Transitions -- Conclusion -- 3 Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance -- The Deliberative Assumption -- Assumption Meets Realities -- Politics: Web 2.0 -- Learning from Web 2.0: Citizens -- Learning from Web 2.0: Government -- Conclusion -- 4 Online Consultations in Local Government: What Works, When, and Why? -- The Case-Survey Method -- A Framework for Understanding Online Consultations -- Predicting the Odds for Success -- Conclusions -- 5 Neighborhood Information Systems as Intermediaries in Democratic Communities -- Neighborhood Information Systems and the Democratization of Data -- National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Projects -- The Activities of Nonprofit Entrepreneurs -- Data Provision, Analysis, and Neighborhood Information Systems -- Stakeholder Mobilization and Collaboration -- Neighborhood Information Systems and Democratic Discourse -- II What Online Consultations Mean to Their Participants -- 6 Playing Politics: The Experience of E-Participation -- Deliberative Dilemmas -- Online Opportunities -- Empirical Examinations -- Reading Results -- Did Participation Foster Political Engagement? -- Design Decisions -- 7 The Participatory Journey in Online Consultations -- Introduction: Participation as a Journey -- The Digital Divide -- The Digital Divide and Political Participation.

Inclusive Consultations -- Broader Barriers to Inclusive Online Consultations -- The Domestic Violence Forum -- Conclusion -- 8 Democratic Consultation and the E-Citizen -- Research Question and Robustness of Data -- Attitudes toward Democracy -- Support for e-Government and e-Democracy -- Attitudes toward Online Consultation -- Mobilizing the Potential of Online Consultation -- Conclusions and Policy Implications -- 9 The Technological Dimension of Deliberation: A Comparison between Online and Offline Participation -- Public Debate on the Seine Aval Wastewater Treatment Facility -- Forms of Participation, Methodological Considerations, and Statistics -- Gender Participation -- Participation by Social Status -- Participation by Knowledge Levels -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 10 The Third Sector as E-Democratic Intermediaries -- The Growing Role of Technology -- The Downsides of New Media -- Legitimacy and Internal Consultation -- The Democratic Limitations of Online Government Consultations -- Conclusion: Intermediary Spaces -- 11 A Survey of Federal Agency Rulemakers' Attitudes about E-Rulemaking -- Background on Rulemaking in the United States -- The Survey -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 12 The Internet and the Madisonian Cycle: Possibilities and Prospects for Consultative Representation -- The Madisonian Cycle -- How Do Members of Congress Conceive of the Internet? -- An Alternative Model of Online Deliberation -- Key Findings -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- III The Legal Architecture of Online Consultation -- 13 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Consultation Regarding Administrative Action: The United States -- The Organization of the Federal Executive for Rulemaking in theUnited States -- Information Technology Resources for the Stages of Rulemaking -- The Decision to Undertake a Rulemaking -- Development of a Draft Regulation.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Opportunity to Comment -- "Soft Law": Guidance, the Web, and Consultation -- Conclusion -- 14 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Policy Consultation Regarding Administrative Action: The European Union -- The Institutional Context for Norm Creation in the EU -- The Commission's Role in Drafting Legislative Proposals -- ICT Resources for the Commission's Norm-Creation Processes -- Transparency -- Anonymity versus Identification -- The Timeframe for Consultation and Its Limits -- The Legal Nature of the Minimum Standards for Consultation -- The Multilingual Challenge -- The Your Voice in Europe Discussions -- Conclusion -- 15 The Legal Environment for Electronic Democracy -- Communication Rights -- Information Rights -- Potential Liabilities of Government Forum Sponsors and Managers -- Conclusion -- 16 E-Democracy, Transnational Organizations, and the Challenge of New Techno-Intermediation -- Democratic Intuitions at the Global Level -- E-Democracy at the Transnational Level: Institutional Typology and Three Case Studies -- Three Case Studies -- Toward a More General Analysis of Digital Openness at the Global Level -- Global Administrative Law and the Challenge of the New Techno-Intermediaries -- IV Conclusion -- 17 Making the E-Citizen: A Sociotechnical Approach to Democracy -- Info-Lite Citizenship -- Push-Button Citizenship -- Actualizing Citizenship -- Under Construction: The Incomplete Evolution of E-Citizenship -- Contributors -- Editors -- Other Contributors -- Index.

An investigation of the effect of government online forums on democratic practices in the United States and Europe.

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