Public authorities are increasingly using information and communication technology (ICT) to engage citizens in the politics, in particular through internet discussion forums. This paper reports findings from a large-scale online randomised controlled trail of 6,009 participants that aims to test...

At smaller social scales, deliberative democratic theory can be restated as an input-process-output model. We advance such a model to formulate hypotheses about how the context and design of a civic engagement process shape the deliberation that takes place therein, as well as the impact of the...

The chapter takes as its starting point the existence of nation state borders and their relevance to the internet. In the offline world national borders range in porosity as regards both people and information. The chapter considers the types of cross-border legal rule that tend to encourage...