I found an interesting text today: The European Economic and Social Committee: towards deliberative democracy via a functional assembly: “The importance of deliberation in democracy has been especially brought to the attention of political theorists by Jürgen Habermas. His discursive democracy is a discourse-based model instead of an interest-based model of democracy. Democracy revolves around transformation rather than simply aggregation of preferences.” It’s been a while since I read Habermas, it may be time to re-read him.
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Category: e-Democracy
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eHabermas
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eGovernance two years ago
The OECD has rediscovered eDemocracy, which I will talk about soon. But let’s first look in the OECD archives. The report Impact of the Emerging Information Society on the Policy Development Process and Democratic Quality was commissioned in 1998 by the OECD Public Management Service to explore how the new information and communications technologies (ITCs) and the emerging “information society” (IS) are changing the way governments handle information in the policy making process, and to discuss some of the issues these changes raise for the conduct of democratic government.
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My new weblog
My start page is now called Gotzelog – John Gotze’s Weblog. Follow the stream, it’s called. Back to basics, from the good ol’ times (before the commercialisastion of the web) when the web was, well, like a weblog 😉
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