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Internet Communication Technology (ICT) for Deliberative Democracy

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Having researched moderation in Palestine and Wasatia as a movement, the democracy described in the Wasatia cycle are more elaborated to evolve into deliberative democracy, the figure below serves to build up the theoretical foundations for the research design in researching Online Deliberative Democracy exploring its impact on social, cultural, economic, political transformation for a democratic society.

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    Jurg Steiner is a professor emeritus in the department of political science at both the university of Bern and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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    Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His most famous theories are on communicative rationality and the public sphere. One of his famous books are The Theory of communicative Action. 1981.

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    James Bohman is Danforth Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books.

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    James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication in the Department of Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science.

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    Guanwei Hu, Wenwen Pan, Mingxin Lu, and Jie Wang, “The Widely Shared Definition of E-Government. An Exploratory Study,” The Electronic Library 27 (2009): 979.

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AlDajani, I.M. (2020). Internet Communication Technology (ICT) for Deliberative Democracy. In: Internet Communication Technology (ICT) for Reconciliation. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41203-6_6

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