Political participation opportunities have been expanding for years, most recently through
digital tools. Social media platforms have become well integrated into civic and political …

As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as
Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing …

Citizens’ intention to use and recommend e-participation: Drawing upon UTAUT and citizen
empowerment | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open …

Research Highlights and Abstract This article Critically reviews e-democracy policy thinking
in the UK. Surveys and evaluates e-democracy activity in key areas, including online forums …

What is the state of the research on crowdsourcing for policymaking? This article begins to
answer this question by collecting, categorizing, and situating an extensive body of the …

Internet‐based platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to
facilitate public engagement with citizens. However, it remains an open question whether …

With the irruption of ICTs and the crisis of political representation, many online platforms
have been developed with the aim of improving participatory democratic processes …

Against a backdrop of scant scholarly evidence regarding the effectiveness of E-
Participation (EP) in enabling broader macro-level outcomes, we posit that electronic …

Online petitions are an important feature of contemporary political engagement in advanced
democracies. In this paper we report on a unique data set–covering a five year period and …

For at least a generation, the current ICT4D paradigm will dominate the relationship
between digital technologies and international development. But there are signs of change …