e-Democracy
A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective
Samenvatting
Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts. Thus, there is a growing interest in areas of e-government and, more recently, e-democracy. However, most attempts in this field have just envisioned standard political approaches facilitated by technology, like e-voting or e-debating. Alternatively, we could devise a more transforming strategy based on deploying web based group decision support tools and promote their use for public policy decision making.
This book delineates how this approach could be implemented. It addresses foundations, basic methodologies, potential implementation and applications, together with a thorough discussion of the many challenging issues.
This innovative text will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of e-government, e-democracy and e-participation and research in decision analysis, negotiation analysis and group decision support.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements
1. e-Democracy: A Group Decision and Negotiation Oriented Overview. D. Rios Insua and S. French.
Political bases
2. Concepts in Democratic Theory. M. Arenilla.
3. Participatory Processes and Instruments. J.M. Lavin and D. Rios Insua.
Methodological bases
4. Problem Structuring Methods for e-Democracy. A. Carreras and A. Franco
5. Decision Support Systems. S. French
6. Collaborative Decision Analysis and e-Democracy. R. Efremov and D. Ríos Insua.
7. Voting Theory. H. Nurmi.
8. Real World Decision-Aiding: A Case Study in Participatory Water Management. K.A. Daniell, C. Mazri, A. Tsoukias.
Technological bases
9. The Internet and the Web. S. French.
10. e-Participation: A Discursive Approach. R. Lourenco and J.P. Costa.
11. e-Negotiation Systems for e-Participation. M.Benyoucef.
12. Web-based Decision Support: Creating a Culture of Applying Multi-criteria Decision Analysis and Web Supported Participation in Environmental Decision Making. R. Hamalainen, J. Mustajoki, M. Marttunen.
13. A Generic System for Remote e-Voting Management. C. Grima and D. Ríos Insua.
14. Explanation Systems. J. Geldermann.
Case studies
15. Transparent Decision Making: Discussion and Case Study in Sweden. M. Danielson, L. Ekenberg, A. Larsson, M. Riabacke.
16. From Participatory Budgets to e-Participatory Budgets. C. Alfaro, J. Gomez and J. Ríos.
17. Internet Voting in Estonia. U. Madisse and E. Maaten.
18. Consensus Building by Blended Participation: The Case Study of the Public Stadium Swimming Pool in Bremen. H. Kubicek, H. Westholm.
Future prospects
19. e-Democracy: The Road Ahead. S. French and D. Rios Insua.