Democracy Beyond the Human

Renewing Social Democracy? Beyond the Third Way

Is an Internet e-lection beyond democracy?

True elector representation in democratic processes can be achieved in a safe and secure environment using the Internet as the electoral vehicle. Clift (2000) maintains that democracy is run by the people who show up, and states that the Internet will bring people closer to the democratic processes of government. This paper describes a qualitative research study in which both the barriers and o...

Democracy vs Desire: Beyond the Politics of Measure

Debunking the 'digital native': beyond digital apartheid, towards digital democracy

This paper interrogates the currently pervasive discourse of the 'net generation' finding the concept of the 'digital native' especially problematic, both empirically and conceptually. We draw on a research project of South African higher education students' access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to show that age is not a determining factor in students' digital l...

Democracy and Human Development

Does democracy improve the quality of life for its citizens? Scholars have long assumed that it does, but recent research has called this orthodoxy into question. This article reviews this body of work, develops a series of causal pathways through which democracy might improve social welfare, and tests two hypotheses: (a) that a country’s level of democracy in a given year affects its level of ...