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Danielson, M., Ekenberg, L. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0665-1889, & Mihai, A.
(2022).
A Multi-Criteria Approach to Analysing E-Democracy Support Systems.
In:
Facebook Nation.
pp. 299-328 New York: Springer.
10.1007/978-1-0716-1867-7_13.
Abstract
New information and communication technologies (ICT) have made the public sphere more diverse and fragmented, and consequently it demands a new kind of literacy to navigate. However, the inter-contextual understanding of democracy is still immature, making it sometimes difficult to have a more coherent view of the various concepts and ideas involved. Neither is the more limited concept of e-democracy uncomplicated and the design of tools and interfaces for e-democracy systems takes place in a highly multidisciplinary context, while there is still a need for some shared ideas of what democracy actually means, also in this new context. In this chapter, we suggest a general framework for evaluating tools for e-democracy and suggest some non-exhaustive criteria under which such tools can be evaluated. The framework is intended to enable users and developers to understand the varying degree of support a tool can provide for several aspects of democracy, and contains a ranking mechanism as well as a suggestion of a ranking-based index based on different criteria and the performance of a tool under these, while still being inclusive regarding different possible conceptions of the concept of e-democracy and its various forms.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Research Programs: | Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) > Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) |
| Depositing User: | Luke Kirwan |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2024 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2024 09:55 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/19483 |
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