This article explores the way technological developments have made e-democracy a potential reality and locates these innovations within the significant body of democratic theory. It examines an Australian e-democracy experiment, Mark Latham’s Direct Democracy in Werriwa, to see whether the...

The paper argues that tensions in democratic theory, especially concerning representative and direct democracy, can be seen in the practice of e-democracy. It examines two sites, the e-democracy program of the UK Hansard Society and an Australian e-democracy experiment, Mark Latham’s Direct...