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Supporting Voting Decisions: Two Municipal Referendum Websites

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Electronic Government (EGOV 2003)

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Two Dutch municipal referendum websites were evaluated with regard to their potential for supporting voting decisions. The websites embodied different approaches to information provision. Both approaches showed disadvantages. In particular, the websites fell short on ‘argumentative empowerment’, in the one case by not providing any argumentative frames within which information could be evaluated, in the other by providing information solely within the argumentative frame of the municipality.

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  1. Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbox 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Arthur Edwards

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  1. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Edwards, A. (2003). Supporting Voting Decisions: Two Municipal Referendum Websites. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10929179_33

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10929179_33

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