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This article discusses the potential for electronic democracy to bring about political renewal through the internet. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach and examine the form and practice of electronic democracy, while also acknowledging that its benefits are not necessarily self-evident. They explore what electronic democracy needs to achieve in order to revitalize democracy and what can be learned from current initiatives in this area.
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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