This publication sets out to make the case for giving everyone the possibility of participating in the development of a European vision of democracy in the age of the information society. It asks what impact the new media are having on politics and representative democracy, looking at the growing relationship between politics and the media and the new links between democracy and representation. It also examines the effect of technological development on the broadening of the political arena and the new ways of exercising political responsibility. The possibility that everyone can be consulted about everything, with traditional forms of democratic representation being challenged by the new power of the media, is considered with its profound implications, including the development of novel methods of organizing and regulating political life. The book includes a number of contributions from academics and practitioners from Europe and North America, who include practical examples of the new forms of democracy in action, some of them on a local level.
- ISBN10 0749433396
- ISBN13 9780749433390
- Publish Date 1 May 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Kogan Page Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English