Virtual policy communities and responsive governance: Redesigning on-line debates
Information PolityPublished 17 May 2005
Victor Bekkers
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A number of design principles are explored that can be used to shape governance arrangements in which public participation, deliberation and learning are important political values and which can help to redesign on-line debates.
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In this article has investigated how we can improve the use of the Internet to design new virtual governance arrangements that take into account the somewhat disappointing results of on-line debates and use the experiences of more virtual community-b
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