Michael Margolis, Gerson Moreno-Riaño

The Prospect of Internet Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The internet opens up new opportunities for citizens to organize and mobilize for action but it also provides new channels that established political, social and economic interests can use to extend their powers. Will the internet revolutionize politics? The Prospect of Internet Democracy is a rich and detailed exploration of the theoretical implications of the internet and related information and communication technologies (ICTs) for democratic theory. Focusing in particular on how political uses of the internet have affected or seem likely to affect patterns of influence among citizens, interest groups and political institutions, the authors examine whether the internet's impact on democratic politics is destined to repeat the history of other innovative ICTs. The volume explores the likely long-term effects of such uses on the conduct of politics in the USA and other nations that declare themselves modern democracies and assesses the extent to which they help or hinder viable democratic governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317018810
• Artikelnr.: 44816150

Autorenporträt

Michael Margolis is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Gerson Moreno-Riaño is Associate Professor of Goverment at the Regent University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The internet and the prospect of democracy
Impossible dreams: the radical roots of cyber-democracy
Tempering the dreams: revised theories of cyber-democracy
Democracy, tolerance and the internet
Mass media and internet democracy
The internet and democratic education
Parties, interest groups and the internet's impact on democratic participation
Internet democracy in the 21st century
Bibliography
Index.