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 …

What effect does bureaucratic responsiveness have on citizen participation? Since the
1940s, attitudinal measures of perceived efficacy have been used to explain participation …

This article examines the democratic impact of the UK coalition government's Transparency
Agenda, focusing on the publication of all local government spending over£ 500 by councils …

FixMyStreet (FMS) is a web-based civic participation platform that allows inhabitants to
report environmental defects like potholes and damaged pavements to the government. In …

The chapter offers a systematic overview of the use of digital tools for various forms of
political participation and the experiences made so far, based on an extensive literature …

The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities explores the question of what it means for a city
to be 'smart', raises some of the tensions emerging in smart city developments and considers …

In response to a perceived crisis of democracy, governments have trialed a variety of
democratic innovations. How to measure the impact of such innovations is both difficult and …

This review paper begins with a discussion of the extent to which the expansion of the web
has caused fundamental changes in the ways that communities are engaging with …

Civic technology needs to be better understood in terms of the factors that promote
representative public participation and impact. This paper reports on a mixed-methods study …

Scholarship on transparency and freedom of information (FOI) conveys an overwhelmingly
“political” narrative. Most uses of FOI, however, are private and nonpolitical in nature. This …