Participatory Turn? Comparing Citizens’ and Politicians’ Perspectives on Online and Offline Local Political Participation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4335/14.2.249-263(2016)Keywords:
Political participation, Politicians, Citizen, Political Attitudes, Internet,Abstract
The paper presents a participatory framework for online and offline participation (participatory rhombus).Most democratic innovation such as referendums, new advisory boards are primarily implemented at the local level, which can be regarded as a laboratory for democratic innovation. Some are online instruments (e-petitions, e participatory budgeting). The paper presents results from a broad representative national survey within 27 cities in Germany analyzing the attitudes of citizen and local politicians. Citizen as well as elected politicians and the administration are generally quite open regarding these new online participatory instruments. Participatory budgeting as well as Online participation is regarded less attractive?
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Kersting, N. & Schmitter, Ph. & Trechsel. A. (2008) Die Zukunft der Demokratie in: Politische Beteiligung. Einführung in dialogorientierte Instrumente politischer und gesellschaftlicher Partizipation (Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften).
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Kersting, N. (2015) Local political participation in Europe. Elections and refendums, Croation and Comparative Public Administration, 15(2), pp. 319-332.
Kersting, N. (ed.) (2008) Politische Beteiligung. Einführung in dialogorientierte Instrumente politischer und gesellschaftlicher Partizipation (Wiesbaden: VS –Springer).
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Ubaldi, B. (2013) Open Government Data: Towards Empirical Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives (Paris:OECD).
Van Deth, J. (2014) A conceptual map of political participation, Acta Politica, 49, pp. 1-19.
Warren, M. E. & Pearse, H. (eds.) (2008) Designing Deliberative Democracy. The British Columbia’s Citizen Assembly (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).</span></p>
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