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This article discusses the prospects for political renewal through the internet. It discusses the debates surrounding electronic democracy and what it needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy. The article also discusses the current state of electronic democracy and what it can teach us about the challenges and opportunities for implementing democratic technology initiatives.
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 debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy can teach us about the challenges and opportunities for implementing democratic technology initiatives.
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