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This chapter provides an overview of potential topics of interest within the fields of e-democracy and e-participation from a group decision and negotiation perspective, setting up a potential research and practice agenda.
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We use ‘science’ in its broad meaning of human knowledge to include all disciplines.
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Organised by the European Commission in Brussels on March 4th 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/eparticipation/2009/index_en.htm
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The work of DRI was supported by grants from ESF, the Spanish Government and e-Democracia-CM. The work of SF was supported by grants from ESF and Research Councils UK. Some of this article draws upon notes written jointly by SF and Clare Bayley, and we are grateful to her for permission to use them.
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French, S., Insua, D.R. (2010). e-Democracy: The Road Ahead. In: Rios Insua, D., French, S. (eds) e-Democracy . Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9045-4_19
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