[ecrea] new publication : Raphaël Kies, Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation, Palgrave, 2010

>Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation by Raphaël Kies
>Palgrave Macmillan, March 2010, 200 p.
>ISBN: 978-0-230-61921-0, ISBN10: 0-230-61921-5
>
>Does the increasing usage of online political 
>forums lead to a more deliberative democracy? 
>This book answers to this question by presenting 
>the evolution of the public spaces in a 
>historical perspective, by defining and 
>operationalizing the deliberative criteria of 
>democracy, and by measuring and evaluating the 
>impact ofvirtualization of the political debates 
>under threes perspectives. It looks at the 
>extent to which different categories of the 
>population debate online, it looks at the 
>categories of actors hosting online political 
>forum, and it assesses the quality of the online 
>political debates in different contexts. The 
>final aim of this work is to provide a more 
>balanced evaluation of the impact of 
>virtualization of the political debates and to 
>enrich the evolving deliberative theory with new findings.
>
>Table of contents
>Deliberative democracy: origins, meaning and 
>major controversies * Deliberative democracy and 
>its operationalization * Extension of the online 
>political debates * Existing findings on 
>deliberativeness of web-debates * Analysis of 
>radicali italiani * Online campaign in Issy-les-Moulineaux
>
>Biography of the author
>Raphaël Kies is Researcher in Political Science 
>at the University of Luxembourg. He is 
>Co-founder of the E-democracy Center 
>(Switzerland), he is member of the Réseau de 
>Démocratie ELectronique (France) and of the ECPR 
>standing group on Internet&Politics. In 
>Luxembourg he is co-responsible for the national 
>and European electoral studies, and for the 
>introduction of innovative methods of political 
>participation such as the voting advice 
>application smartvote.lu and the European 
>Citizens Consultation. He has published several 
>articles and reports on e-democracy, local 
>democracy, and deliberative democracy.
>
>See: 
><http://us.macmillan.com/promisesandlimitsofwebdeliberation>http://us.macmillan.com/promisesandlimitsofwebdeliberation
>

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