In recent years, political parties have adopted Online Delegative Democracy platforms such as LiquidFeedback to organise themselves and their political agendas via a grassroots approach. A common objection against the use of these platforms is the delegation system, where a user can delegate his vote to another user, giving rise to so-called super-voters, i.e. powerful users who receive many de...

Observation shows that while democracy is fragile in poor countries, it is impregnable in developed ones. To explain this pattern, I develop a model in which political parties propose redistributions of incomes, observe the result of an election, and decide whether to comply with the outcome or to launch a struggle for dictatorship. Democracy prevails in developed societies because too much is ...

Introduction Existing literature and the popular press have lauded the digital revolution as a force that is democratizing traditional forms of journalism and destabilizing media power hierarchies. This paper aims to refute such claims of enhanced democracy through the lens of Fashion Journalism as it responds to the digital age. Questions of democracy have heretofore been debated principally w...

The technological revolution, particularly the availability of more data and powerful computational tools, has led to emergence a new scientific field called “Computational Diplomacy”. Our work tries define its scope focuses on popular subarea it, namely “Digital Democracy”. In recent years, there been surge interest in using digital technologies promote participatory forms democracy. While are...

This study examines the effect of Internet on intention to vote. Specifically, we explore how Interactivity and credibility as the characteristics of Internet influence apolitical and political internet users’ intention to vote. We argue apolitical users who have political apathy are affected more by the characteristics on Internet than political users who are interested in politics. We also ar...

The ideas in this paper merge the pre-computer era ethnographic use of information systems with emerging ideas in cloud-resident, very large database design. The need for this revolutionary information system has arisen in the author’s field of governance and public administration due to the problems faced by both mature and emerging democracies. In today’s climate, global and organizational el...

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Research and scientific explanation about discourse democracy theory of Jurgen Habermas  and studying and evaluating reflection and generalization of his philosophical and epistemological principles are objectives which the researcher follows in this research From this view, there is studied representation of concepts and categories such as cognitive interests, communication action, discoursing...

Forum Participants Richard Allan, MP, Secretary, UK Parliament e-Democracy Group Joanne Caddy, Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD Stephen Coleman, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Pierre de la Coste, author of L’Hyper-République, Paris Chrisoph Dowe, Politik Digital, Germany William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Paul Herrnson, University of Maryland, Colleg...

Abstract Today’s election campaigns are heavily data-driven. Despite the numerous skeptical voices questioning compatibility of specific campaigning practices with fundamental principles liberal democracies, there has to date been little comprehensive work in this area from perspective normative democratic theory. Our article addresses gap by drawing on recent research theory political parties ...