The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet by Peter M. Shane at Barnes & Noble. FREE Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help Consensus conferences have functioned well in small, relatively homogeneous countries such as Denmark. In the geographically sprawling and socially diverse United States, however, meaningful citizen deliberation and decision-making on science and technology depends upon the ability to bring more participants "into the room." Prospects for a future-proof democracy. In political philosophy, the very idea of democracy is based on the principal of the general will, which was proposed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th Three prominent 'camps' have emerged within Internet democracy rhetoric and practice, each drawing upon different models of democracy: communitarian, liberal individualist and deliberative. Much interest has been shown in the former two camps by researchers and policy makers. This paper turns to an examination of the possible realization of the third camp's vision - that the public sphere of The demand for political participation and the involvement of the people in the choice of their leaders and decision-making which constitutes the critical hub of political democracy (Sorensen, 1993) is not a new phenomenon in Africa. The anti-colonial project was constructed and legitimized on this basis. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY* Sharun Mukand Dani Rodrik Department of Economics John F. Kennedy School of Government University of Warwick Harvard University Coventry CV4 7AL Cambridge, MA 02138 United Kingdom U.S.A. Draft . July 2015 * This paper was written at the Institute for Advanced Study, to which we are grateful for Paper presented at the Prospects for Electronic Democracy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 20-21, 2002. "How Deliberation Affects Public Opinion." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 25-28, 2002. 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 prospect of the internet democracy begins its is ful?lling much of that potential through political blogs, media activist sites, document The Prospect of Internet Democracy is a rich Beierle, T.C. (2004) 'Engaging the Public Through Online Policy Dialogues', in P. Shane (ed.), Democracy Online: The Prospects for Democratic Renewal Through the Internet (New York: Taylor & Francis), pp. 155-66. Google Scholar Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet (Peter Shane, ed. 2004) 18 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2016 See all articles by A. Michael Froomkin