Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet

by Peter M. Shane

Book Overview

Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being self-evident. The debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415948649
• ISBN13: 9780415948647
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"