Charles F. Sabel’s reflects on Hayek and Durkheim in his Design, Deliberation, and Democracy. On the New Pragmatism of Firms and Public Institutions.
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Participation Run Amok: The Costs of Mass Participation for Deliberative Agency Decisionmaking
Jim Rossi’s article is a few years old, but still worth reading. He addresses the implications of broad-based participatory reforms for administrative process, with a particular focus on how participation reveals itself in different political-theoretic models of agency governance.
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Microsoft’s killer app for the Two-Way-Web
ZDNet News: Netdocs: Microsoft’s .Net poster child? “According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging.” Could be good, could be crap. Fortunately, there are other interests in Two-Way-Web development.
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What is it good for?
The Magazine on Information Impacts, October 2000 issue is themed: Is Digital Government Good Government? “Since the days of the early 20th-century Progressives, we Americans have sought good government — efficient, responsive and effective with the “right” balance between intervention and individuals’ rights. Does migrating services online change what it means to be “good”?”
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Perhect!
e-2 “As word processing software becomes ever more advanced, with the ability to correct syntax and spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to impose a standardised corporate language onto our writing – subtly altering its meaning. Working with the programmer Jon Pollard, Takahashi has produced a new and fully functioning online version of these platforms which undermines this dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative back from the software, Word Perhect presents an idiosyncratic hand drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools.”
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eFederalism
E-democracy, direct democracy, community & action, fragmentation & networks, accountability & representation – these are the headlines in Kala Ladenheim’s essay Federalism & Electronic Democracy. Kala’s site is a sonnet cycle rather than an epic poem.
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Frideres on free riders
Civic Participation, Awareness, Knowledge and Skills by James S. Frideres.
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Voters and supermarket customers are the same people
Public-choice theory is very timely, says KableNet.com’s Government – whose obedient servant?. There are some intersting thoughts in this article.
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UKoffline
There’s a 500 Internal Server Error on the new UK Online.
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Best of the best
The latest news from eDenmark: Bedst på Nettet – Kvalitetsvurdering af offentlige hjemmesider (Best on the Net – Quality Assessment of Public Websites) is the latest attempt from the Danish Government in making Denmark’s public sector digital.
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