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This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special
focus on the connections between participation, representation and
legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges
and prospects of deliberative constitution making are today. It
seeks to provide a more complete picture of what is at stake as a
political trend in various places in the world, both theoretically
and empirically grounded. Distinctively, the book studies not only
established democracies and well-known cases of deliberative
constitution-making but also such practices in authoritarian and
less consolidated democratic settings and departs from a
traditional institutional perspective to have a special focus on
actors, and in particular underrepresented groups. This book is of
key interest to scholars and students of deliberative democracy,
constitutional politics, democratization and autocratization
studies, citizen participation and more broadly to comparative
politics, public administration, social policy and law.
This book is the first to comprehensively analyse the political and
societal impacts of new Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) in a region of the Global South. It evaluates under what
conditions some Latin American governments and people have
succeeded in taking up the opportunities related to the spread of
ICTs, while others are confronted with the pessimist scenario of
increased, digitally induced social and democratic cleavages.
Specifically, the book examines if and how far the spread and use
of new ICT affected central aims of democratic governance such as
reducing socio-economic and gender inequality; strengthening
citizen participation in political decision making; increasing the
transparency of legislative processes; improving administrative
processes; providing free access to government data and
information; and expanding independent spaces of citizen
communication. The country case and cross-country explore a range
of bottom-up driven initiatives to reinforce democracy in the
region. The book offers researchers and students an
interdisciplinary approach to these issues by linking it to
established theories of media and politics, political
communication, political participation, and governance. Giving
voice to researchers native to the region and with direct
experience of the region, it uniquely brings together contributions
from political scientists, researchers in communication studies and
area studies specialists who have a solid record in political
activism and international development co-operation.
This book is the first to comprehensively analyse the political and
societal impacts of new Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) in a region of the Global South. It evaluates under what
conditions some Latin American governments and people have
succeeded in taking up the opportunities related to the spread of
ICTs, while others are confronted with the pessimist scenario of
increased, digitally induced social and democratic cleavages.
Specifically, the book examines if and how far the spread and use
of new ICT affected central aims of democratic governance such as
reducing socio-economic and gender inequality; strengthening
citizen participation in political decision making; increasing the
transparency of legislative processes; improving administrative
processes; providing free access to government data and
information; and expanding independent spaces of citizen
communication. The country case and cross-country explore a range
of bottom-up driven initiatives to reinforce democracy in the
region. The book offers researchers and students an
interdisciplinary approach to these issues by linking it to
established theories of media and politics, political
communication, political participation, and governance. Giving
voice to researchers native to the region and with direct
experience of the region, it uniquely brings together contributions
from political scientists, researchers in communication studies and
area studies specialists who have a solid record in political
activism and international development co-operation.
The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin
America argues that while populist leaders typically claim to speak
'in the name of the people', they rarely allow the people to
express their opinion independently through institutions of citizen
participation. The argument is rooted in theoretical discussions
and empirical analyses of trends and specific cases. The volume
deals with the following questions: Why is populism so prolific in
the Latin American region? How and where do populist leaders arrive
to power? Is there a connection between populism and fascism as
claimed by negative views of Argentinian Peronism? Are populist
leaders more keen on introducing mechanisms of direct citizen
participation? Are the erosions of the political party system an
explanation of the emergence of populism, as seems to be the case
with Fujimorism in Peru? To what extent have the governments of
Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa given voice to the
people through the so-called participatory democracy?
This edited volume presents the first comprehensive analysis of
recall processes which have spread globally since the end of the
Cold War, and which are now re-configuring the political dynamics
of electoral democracy. Drawing on the expertise of country
experts, the book provides a coherent and theoretically informed
framework for mapping and evaluating this fast-evolving phenomenon.
While the existing literature on the subject has so far focused on
isolated single-country studies, the collection brings recall
experiments to centre stage as it relates them to current crises in
the traditional variants of representative democracy. It explains
why the spread of recall innovations is set to continue, and to
pass a threshold from inattention to urgent engagement. The authors
further provide original insights into the rationale for recall, as
well as guidance on minimising the accompanying risks.
This edited volume presents the first comprehensive analysis of
recall processes which have spread globally since the end of the
Cold War, and which are now re-configuring the political dynamics
of electoral democracy. Drawing on the expertise of country
experts, the book provides a coherent and theoretically informed
framework for mapping and evaluating this fast-evolving phenomenon.
While the existing literature on the subject has so far focused on
isolated single-country studies, the collection brings recall
experiments to centre stage as it relates them to current crises in
the traditional variants of representative democracy. It explains
why the spread of recall innovations is set to continue, and to
pass a threshold from inattention to urgent engagement. The authors
further provide original insights into the rationale for recall, as
well as guidance on minimising the accompanying risks.
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Internet Science - Third International Conference, INSCI 2016, Florence, Italy, September 12-14, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Franco Bagnoli, Anna Satsiou, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Paolo Nesi, Giovanna Pacini, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International
Conference on Internet Science held in Florence, Italy, in
September 2016. The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected for inclusion in this volume. They were organized in
topical sections named: collective awareness and crowdsourcing
platforms collaboration, privacy and conformity in virtual/social
environments; internet interoperability, freedom and data analysis;
smart cities and sociotechnical systems.
The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy
gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation. To
tackle this problem, a growing number of established and new
democracies included direct democratic instruments in their
constitutions, enabling citizens to have direct influence on
democratic decision-making. However, there are many different
empirical manifestations of direct democracy, and their diverse
consequences for representative democracy remain an understudied
topic. Let the People Rule? aims to fill this gap, analysing the
multifaceted consequences of direct democracy on constitutional
reforms and issues of independence, democratic accountability
mechanisms, and political outcomes. Chapters apply different
methodological approaches to study the consequences of direct
democracy on democratic legitimacy. These range from single
in-depth case studies, like the Scottish independence referendum in
2014, to cross-national comparative studies, such as the direct
democratic experience within the European Union.
The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy
gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation. To
tackle this problem, a growing number of established and new
democracies included direct democratic instruments in their
constitutions, enabling citizens to have direct influence on
democratic decision-making. However, there are many different
empirical manifestations of direct democracy, and their diverse
consequences for representative democracy remain an understudied
topic. Let the People Rule? aims to fill this gap, analysing the
multifaceted consequences of direct democracy on constitutional
reforms and issues of independence, democratic accountability
mechanisms, and political outcomes. Chapters apply different
methodological approaches to study the consequences of direct
democracy on democratic legitimacy. These range from single
in-depth case studies, like the Scottish independence referendum in
2014, to cross-national comparative studies, such as the direct
democratic experience within the European Union.
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