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The e-democracy concerns the participation of citizens in policy and decision-making processes through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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The participation of citizens in local public life is not a new phenomenon. History is full of examples of people engaged in taking part in collective decisions within a government, a public institution, or a civil society organization. Citizen advisory boards, local citizen committees, parliamentary commissions and mediation, class action, etc., are some examples of organizational forms of public participation in the policy and decision-making processes.
The citizen participation is a process in which people take part in public affairs for exerting influence on policy process and on choices that significantly affect the life of their community (André et al. 2012). Although participation has been in the academy’s vocabulary for quite some time, a...
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Metallo, C., Agrifoglio, R., Romanelli, M., Fierro, P. (2017). E-Democracy and Local Public Administrations. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3218-1
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