Mit dem Medium Internet auf dem Weg zu mehr politischer Partizipation und Demokratie?

Mit dem Medium Internet auf dem Weg zu mehr politischer Partizipation und Demokratie?
Author: Catrin Knußmann
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 363865060X

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Politik - Sonstige Themen, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 27 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ob wir wollen oder nicht, Medien und der Wandel in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik gehören für uns heute zum Alltag und bestimmen mehr und mehr unser Leben. Neben Massenmedien, wie Tageszeitungen und Zeitschriften, Radio, Fernsehen, gewinnt das Internet zunehmend an Bedeutung. In der Vergangenheit war jede neue Entwicklung im Bereich der Massenkommunikation mit den Hoffnungen, teilweise sogar Erwartungen, an einen Durchbruch sowohl in der politischen Information als auch in der politischen Beteiligung verknüpft. Bislang konnten diese Hoffnungen und Erwartungen nie erfüllt werden. Diese Medien führten zwar immer zu einer größeren Informiertheit der Bürger, dennoch zeigte sich kein Wandel in ihrer politischen Partizipation oder ihrem politischen Interesse.Gerade die weltweite Verbreitung des Internets schürte die Diskussion um mehr Bürgerbeteiligung und politische Kommunikation aufs Neue. Das neue Medium stellte für viele eine Revolution für die Politikvermittlung und Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten dar. Nicht nur Politikwissenschaftler und Soziologen, sondern auch Software-Unternehmer und Internet-Experten spekulierten über die neuen Möglichkeiten des Internets, die von der bisher praktizierten repräsentativen zu einer direkteren Form der Demokratie mit mehr Partizipation führen sollten. Diese Hausarbeit stellt im Folgenden die verschiedenen Ansätze und Utopien von elektronischer Demokratie vor. Zum Einstieg wird der allgemeine Zusammenhang zwischen den Medien und der Politik dargestellt. Die Vorstellung der "Ahnen" der elektronischen Demokratie soll darauf hinweisen, dass schon sehr früh das Thema elektronische Demokratie im wissenschaftlichen Gedankengut verankert war, obwohl die Kommunikationstechnik noch lange nicht so ausgereift war wie mittlerweile. In den folgenden Kapiteln werden einige Beispiele von umgesetzten E-Demokratie-Projekten dargestellt, um dann auf die Transfermöglichkeiten der US-amerikanischen Konzepte in der Bundesrepublik zu sprechen zu kommen. Der letzte Teil der Hausarbeit zeigt die Chancen und Risiken der elektronischen Demokratie auf und im Fazit versuche ich die Frage zu beantworten: Hat das Medium Internet positive Auswirkungen auf die Partizipation und damit einhergehend auf die Demokratie und ist E-Demokratie in Deutschland umsetzbar?

Political Participation in the Digital Age

Political Participation in the Digital Age
Author: Julia Tiemann-Kollipost
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-02-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3839448883

This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical presence to being topic-centered, low-threshold, temporally discontinuous, and independent from physical presence. With its ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German online participation tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, the book offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike on how to get the most out of online participation formats.

Online Deliberation

Online Deliberation
Author: Todd Davies
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Deliberative democracy
ISBN: 9781575865546

Can new technology enhance local, national, and global democracy? Online Deliberation is the first book that attempts to sample the full range of work on online deliberation, forging new connections between academic research, web designers, and practitioners. Since the most exciting innovations in deliberation have occurred outside of traditional institutions, and those involved have often worked in relative isolation from each other, research conducted on this growing field has to this point neglected the full perspective of online participation. This volume, an essential read for those working at the crossroads of computer and social science, illuminates the collaborative world of deliberation by examining diverse clusters of Internet communities.

Democracy in Motion

Democracy in Motion
Author: Tina Nabatchi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019999613X

Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement. Organized in a series of chapters that address the big questions of deliberative civic engagement, it uses theory, research, and practice from around the world to explore what we know about, how we know it, and what remains to be understood. More than a simple summary of research, the book is designed to be accessible and useful to a wide variety of audiences, from scholars and practitioners working in numerous disciplines and fields, to public officials, activists, and average citizens who are seeking to utilize deliberative civic engagement in their communities. The book significantly enhances current scholarship, serving as a guide to existing research and identifying useful future research. It also has promise for enhancing practice, for example by helping practitioners, public officials, and others better think through and articulate issues of design and outcomes, thus enabling them to garner more support for public deliberation activities. In addition, by identifying what remains to be learned about public deliberation, practitioners and public officials may be inspired to connect with scholars to conduct research and evaluations of their efforts.

(Dys-)Functionalities of Corruption

(Dys-)Functionalities of Corruption
Author: Tobias Debiel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3658046333

Corruption is usually understood as hampering political development, economic growth and democratic participation of citizens, but comparing the effects of corruption for different political regimes presents astonishingly complex findings. The ongoing persistence of corruption underlines that it is not only dysfunctional, but can be highly functional as well. This special issue brings together contributions from comparative politics, political science and economics which precisely focus on these (dys) functionalities of corruption in political regimes across various world regions. The question of methodological pluralism is especially important for studying corruption comparatively. While on an international level a trend towards an increased use of quantitative methods in political science as well as in economics can be observed, the special issue underlines the importance of having a pluralistic approach for grasping the complex and multi-layered effects of the phenomenon. Of similar importance is the adoption of a comparative perspective that includes different world regions in order to understand the different roles of corruption in developing, transforming and developed countries alike. Dr. Tobias Debiel is Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF). Since 2006, he is also Professor in International Relations and Development Policy, Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen. Dr. Andrea Gawrich is Professor for International Integration at the University of Gießen.

Public Governance and Leadership

Public Governance and Leadership
Author: Rainer Koch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2007-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 383509100X

In this book, internationally renowned scholars and practitioners elaborate on political as well as managerial questions, e.g. how to make overriding Public Governance changes the ’guiding model’ for a now needed stronger strategic approach. More specifically, their focus is on how moves towards a re-positioning as an enabling authority are to be made drivers for adapting management systems across all levels. In accordance with present developments, the authors explain how changes in the overall governance structure have to be used to adapt leadership practices in a more output-oriented or even entrepreneurial fashion. Overall, the underlying idea is to provide some further basics for a public sector type of a design-oriented management science.

Deliberative Politics in Action

Deliberative Politics in Action
Author: Jürg Steiner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2005-01-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521828710

Stressing the role of conversation, argument and negotiation in politics, particularly in democratic government, this book offers an empirical study of deliberative politics. Using the parliamentary debates in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as an empirical base, the authors measure the level of deliberation by constructing a discourse quality index, characterized by a high inter-coder reliability.

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
Author: Anthony M. Orum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 2919
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118568451

Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.

Fear Thy Neighbor

Fear Thy Neighbor
Author: Lorenzo Vidino
Publisher: Ledizioni
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8867056204

Over the last three years Europe and North America have been hit by an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks perpetrated by individuals motivated by jihadist ideology. Who are the individuals who have carried out these attacks? Were they born and raised in the West? Or were they an “imported threat”, refugees and migrants? How did they radicalize? Were they well educated and integrated, or social outcasts? Did they act alone? What were their connections to the Islamic State? The answers to these and other questions have large implications for our understanding of the threat facing us and, consequently, help us design sounder policy solutions built on empirical evidence. This study, the first of its kind, seeks to analyze the demographic profile, radicalization trajectories and connections to the Islamic State of all the individuals who have carried out attacks inspired by jihadist ideology in North America and Europe in the three years since the proclamation of the caliphate in June 2014.

The Republican Alternative

The Republican Alternative
Author: André Holenstein
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9089640053

The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.