Cyberspace Self-Governance: A Skeptical View from Liberal Democratic Theory

A Practice Theory View of IS Governance

IS research has begun examining the use and adoption of information technology through a practice perspective. This is part of the shift in the discourse in IS research away from technological or organizational determinism. This paper adopts that same viewpoint to understand the governance of IS resources. Presently, much research on this topic adopts a static, top-down and variance stance. I u...

Comments on ’Democratic governance’

The article provides a discussion of Mark Bevir’s important book on ‘Democratic governance’. It first discusses the conceptual part and in particular the categorisation in terms of ‘modern social science’. It disputes the analysis of neo institutionalism. Second, it stresses the UK case, which is the base of Bevir’s analysis and suggests that the author relies far too much on policy networks. H...

Democratic governance and evaluation

Towards a Humanistic Conception of Cyberspace. A Twofold Challenge for Netizens Mobilizing for a Democratic Internet Governance

Our paper critically addresses the involvement and the role of civil society entities in new participatory forms of governance, using the Internet governance (IG) debate as a case study. The Internet is first and foremost a global public space potentially available to everyone for the pursuit of the most heterogeneous interests. As this global space becomes crucial in everyday life and conseque...

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on the long-term viability of co-ops; on the relative produc...