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Ever-stronger ties between technology, entertainment and design are
transforming our relationship with democratic decision-making. When
we are online, or when we use digital products and services, we
tend to focus more on certain factors like speed of service and
user-friendliness, and to overlook the costs – both for ourselves
and others. As a result, a widening gap separates our expectations
of everything related to digitalization – including government
– and the actual practice of democratic governance. Democratic
regulators, unable to meet citizens’ demands for tangible, fast
and gratifying returns, are seeing the poorest results ever
recorded in terms of interest, engagement and retention, despite
using the most cutting-edge technologies. This book explores
various aspects of the relationship between democracy, technology
and entertainment. These include, on the one hand, the role that
digital technology has in strengthening our collective
intelligence, nurturing empathic relations between citizens and
democratic institutions, and supporting processes of political
aggregation, deliberation and collaboration. On the other hand,
they comprise the challenges accompanying digital technology for
representation, transparency and inclusivity in democratic
decision-making. The book’s main argument is that digital
democratic spaces should be redesigned to narrow the gap between
the expectations and outcomes of democratic decision-making. It
suggests abandoning the notion of digital participatory rights as
being fast and easy to enjoy. It also refutes the notion that
digital democratic decision-making can only be effective when it
delivers rapid and successful responses to the issues of the day,
regardless of their complexity. Ultimately, the success or failure
of digital democracy will depend on the ability of public
regulators to design digital public spaces with a commitment to
complexity, so as to make them appealing, but also effective at
engaging citizens.
This book explores the activism promoted by organised networks of
civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more
democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and
negative impact that such networks of civil society actors - named
"interlocutory coalitions" - may have on the convergence of
principles of administrative governance across the European legal
system and other supranational legal systems. The book takes two
main controversial aspects into account: the first relates to the
convergence between administrative rules pertaining to different
supranational regulatory systems. Traditionally, the spread of
methods of administrative governance has been depicted primarily
against the background of the interactions between the domestic and
the supranational arena, both from a top-down and bottom-up
perspective. However, the exploration of interactions occurring at
the supranational level between legal regimes is still not grounded
on adequate empirical evidence. The second controversial aspect
considered in this book consists of the role of civil society
actors operating at the supranational level. In its discussion of
the first aspect, the book focuses on the relations between the
European administrative law and the administrative principles of
law pertaining to other supranational regulatory regimes and
regulators, including the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Asian
Development Bank, and the Council of Europe. The examination of the
second aspect involves the exploration of the still little
examined, but crucial, role of civil society organised networks in
shaping global administrative law. These "interlocutory coalitions"
include NGOs, think tanks, foundations, universities, and
occasionally activists with no formal connections to civil society
organisations. The book describes such interlocutory coalitions as
drivers of harmonized principles of participatory democracy at the
European and global levels. However, interlocutory coalitions show
a number of tensions (e.g. the governability of coalitions, the
competition among them) that may hamper the impact they have on the
reconfiguration of individuals' rights, entitlements and
responsibilities in the global arena.
This book explores the activism promoted by organised networks of
civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more
democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and
negative impact that such networks of civil society actors - named
"interlocutory coalitions" - may have on the convergence of
principles of administrative governance across the European legal
system and other supranational legal systems. The book takes two
main controversial aspects into account: the first relates to the
convergence between administrative rules pertaining to different
supranational regulatory systems. Traditionally, the spread of
methods of administrative governance has been depicted primarily
against the background of the interactions between the domestic and
the supranational arena, both from a top-down and bottom-up
perspective. However, the exploration of interactions occurring at
the supranational level between legal regimes is still not grounded
on adequate empirical evidence. The second controversial aspect
considered in this book consists of the role of civil society
actors operating at the supranational level. In its discussion of
the first aspect, the book focuses on the relations between the
European administrative law and the administrative principles of
law pertaining to other supranational regulatory regimes and
regulators, including the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Asian
Development Bank, and the Council of Europe. The examination of the
second aspect involves the exploration of the still little
examined, but crucial, role of civil society organised networks in
shaping global administrative law. These "interlocutory coalitions"
include NGOs, think tanks, foundations, universities, and
occasionally activists with no formal connections to civil society
organisations. The book describes such interlocutory coalitions as
drivers of harmonized principles of participatory democracy at the
European and global levels. However, interlocutory coalitions show
a number of tensions (e.g. the governability of coalitions, the
competition among them) that may hamper the impact they have on the
reconfiguration of individuals' rights, entitlements and
responsibilities in the global arena.
The book aims at discussing the promises and the challenges behind
the use of gamification in public governance, both at the national
and supranational levels. In the first part it will review the
landscape of gamification, take a brief look at its history,
provide definitions and examples of its application within the
private and public sectors (at the national level), and introduce
the readers to a number of problems linked with the use of
gamification (with no aim at being comprehensive). The second part
of the proposed book will shift the focus from the descriptive to
the problematic analysis of gamification in governance. Building on
previous parts, the third section of the proposed book will venture
beyond the empirical analysis and will address the impact of
gamification strategies on participatory democracy in the national
and supranational legal spaces.
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