Bulletin n. 2/2016
December 2016
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Kersting Norbert
    Politische Online-Beteiligung im internationalen Vergleich. Eine Revitalisierung politischer Beteiligung?
    in Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft , Volume 10, Issue 2 Supplement, July 2016 ,  2016 ,  91–113
    Political Online Participation in global perspective. A re-vitalization of political engagement? Abstract The crisis of representative political system is characterized by the growing political apathy, lower electoral turnouts and shrinking party membership on one hand, while on the other hand, strong political protest in new social movements and new political parties became obvious. Offline political participation such as participation in representative, participation in direct-democracy, deliberative participation as well as demonstrative participation are enhanced by equivalent forms of online political participation. On the basis of the survey data, in this article, the pairwise comparisons in four different continents are presented and analyzed. The analysis use the case studies of the countries such as Germany and Austria, Sweden and Norway, USA and Canada, Poland, Russia and Brazil, Chile, Japan and Thailand. The results show different forms of online and off-line participation and the social structural as well as political motivation for online participation. Nonetheless, some of these countries, online-participation is not regarded as a full switch for analogue offline political engagement (substitution thesis). Meanwhile, in some countries, online participation is attracting politically excluded critical citizen, who express themselves now in internet forums.
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