CITIZEN POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE

 

LITERATURE, BOOKS

The following works are concerned with citizen politics, participation, democracy and governance. Most of them consider the role of new electronic communication media in aspects of the latter.
 

Gotze, John. Participatory Design in an Urban Context.
PhD-thesis, Department of Technology and Social Sciences, Technical University of Denmark 1997. Published in print by the department, published electronically at http://www.gotzespace.dk/phd/contents.html

Jankowski.N, Leeuwis.C, Martin. P, and others. Teledemocracy
in the Province: an experiment with Internet-based software and public
debate. Paper prepared for Euricom Colloqium, 19-21 June 1997. http://www.socsci.kun.nl/maw/cw/publications/tdinprov.html

Fung, Archon and Wright, Erik Olin. Experiments in Empowered Deliberative Democracy. http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/deliberative.html

Macpherson, Michael. Citizen participation in politics: the role of new communication media. Lecture in Czech Republic 1999. http://www.isss.cz/1999/ under the headlines "Sbornik prispevku" and "Video".  Similar at http://www.snafu.de/~mjm/hradec-kralove.html

Macpherson, Michael. La participación ciudadana en política y los nuevos sistemas de communicación. Psichologia Política, No.14 (May) 1997, 77-119. Resumen: http://www.snafu.de/~mjm/res.html

above in english:
Macpherson, Michael. Citizen participation in politics and the new communication media. http://www.snafu.de/~mjm/CP/cp.html

Macpherson, Michael. OPEN FORUM: CITIZENS RESOLVE http://www.snafu.de/~mjm/prop2.html German version/Auf Deutsch http://www.snafu.de/~mjm/offenes-forum.html

Reinert, Adrian. Planungszellen/Bürgergutachten. In: Apel, Heino and Dernbach, Dorothee et al, Wege zur Zukunftfähigkeit - ein Methodenhandbuch. Stiftung Mitarbeit, Bonn <info@mitarbeit.de>

Robbins, Mark D. (Syracuse University) "CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISIONS: THEORY AND CRITIQUE". ANNUAL MEETING OF THE URBAN AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION. APRIL, 1996. NEW YORK CITY.

Schonewille, Maureen. Approximate title: A survey of local authorities in 5 european countries. http://www.eur-bit.org/ You will find it under the button "Studies" and it can be downloaded as a zipped file (rtf).)