The opening of data has been credited for improving transparency and for providing a
window on government functioning. Although this relationship is intuitively apparent, it is in …

This Element argues that to understand why transparency “works” in one context, but fails in
another, we have to take into account how institutional (macro), organizational (meso) …

Although of high relevance to political science, the interaction between technological
change and political change in the era of Big Data remains somewhat of a neglected topic …

While participatory urban and regional planning have become a widely accepted approach
to enhance the democratic aims of community and urban development, challenges still …

Despite the hopes that information and communication technology (ICT) would revolutionize
democratic participation, evidence suggests that e-participation systems designed for …

Traditionally, the term 'crowd'was used almost exclusively in the context of people who self-
organized around a common purpose, emotion, or experience. Today, however, firms often …

Open government is a new phenomenon that attracted much research in recent years. The
major dimensions of open government included some redundancy with respect to the …

Democratic governments maintain their legitimacy by answering demands to solve societal
problems, thus continuously adopting and implementing new policies, programs, and …

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 …

Despite the rising scientific and practical relevance of e-participation, the field still suffers
from a diffuse, heterogeneous state of knowledge and our understanding of successful e …