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Anti-apathy approaches in representative democracies: e-governance and web 2.0-facilitating citizen involvement?

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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Bardo FraunholzBardo Fraunholz, Chandana Unnithan
Apathetic citizens disenchanted with conventional channels of participation in democratic processes are a predicament for mature representative democracies, as it reflects in the depleting voter turnouts in elections and participation in community associations. Recognising the reverberations of this apathy on governance, economies ostensibly search for anti apathy approaches. Recently E-governance using the pervasive power of the internet/Web 2.0, during the election has been instrumental for democratic engagement. We considered Australia and France, applying a historiographical view exploring the pre-election scenarios, attempting to evaluate the use of the Internet/Web 2.0 as valid benchmarking anti-apathy approaches of e-governance, to facilitate citizen participation.

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International journal of electronic democracy

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1

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1

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51 - 84

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Inderscience publishers

Location

United Kingdom

ISSN

1742-4224

Language

eng

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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