Hoff / Horrocks / Tops Democratic Governance and New Technology

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-65832-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

Drawing on case studies from Denmark, The Netherlands and the UK, this book discusses new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Contributors argue that ICTs play an important role in the process of restructuring and redefining basic relations within the political systems of Western democracies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoff, Jens

Horrocks, Ivan

Tops, Pieter

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: new technology and the 'crises' of democracy Jens Hoff, Ivan Horrocks and Pieter Tops

Part I. The Nature of the Problem

1. Technology and social change: the path between technological determinism, social constructivism and new institutionalism Jens Hoff

2. Modelling electronic democracy: towards democratic discourses for an information age Christine Bellamy

Part II. Case Studies

3. Danish political parties and new technology: interactive parties or new shop windows? Karl Löfgren

4. British political parties: continuity and change in the information age Colin Smith

5. Political websites during the 1998 Parliamentary Elections in the Netherlands Pieter W. Tops, Gerrit Voerman and Marcel Boogers

6. When democratic strategies clash: the citizen card debate in Denmark Jens Hoff and Jacob Rosenkrands

7. Relegitimating the democratic polity: the closed circuit television revolution in the UK C. William R. Webster

8. Electronic service delivery and democratic relationships between government and its citizens Stavros Zouridis and Victor Bekkers

9. Infocracy or infopolis? Transparency, autonomy and democracy in an information age Wim Van de Donk

10. Virtual communities: new public spheres on the internet? Kees Schalken

Part III. Conclusion

11. New technology and democratic renewal: the evidence assessed Pieter Tops, Ivan Horrocks and Jens Hoff

12. Reflections on the models of democracy: cyberdemocracy? Jens Hoff, Ivan Horroks and Pieter Tops