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Urbanization and Urban Governance in China pp 237–258Cite as

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The Modes of Government Response to Internet Political Participation in Cities

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This chapter seeks to construct a simple theory on the government response to internet political participation. We focus on the impact mechanisms of internet political participation on government processes and modes of government response to that internet political participation.

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Notes

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    This idea is derived from concept of political participation introduced by Manuel Castells in 1996.

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    Twitter is a micro-blogging service on the world wide web in which users post messages of up to 140 characters to their account page or “profile.” Their messages can then be viewed by any other account holder. Users can choose to “follow” each other, in which case messages are streamed instantly to the accounts of their “followers.” This produces a form of virtual network that can quickly expand to allow large numbers of users to communicate simultaneously and in near real time (Hands 2011, 191).

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Weng, S. (2018). The Modes of Government Response to Internet Political Participation in Cities. In: Ye, L. (eds) Urbanization and Urban Governance in China. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57824-2_11

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