Bowling Together - Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation

Bowling Together

Online Public Engagement
in Policy Deliberation

  


Stephen Coleman & John Gøtze

> About the report

> Introduction

> Representation, Engagement and Democracy

> Two-Way Governance

> Connected Citizenship

> Appropriate Technologies For Online Engagement

> Global Case Studies

References

> PDF (2.5MB!)

References

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Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation by Stephen Coleman & John Gøtze
Read more:

> About the report

> Introduction

> Representation, Engagement and Democracy

> Two-Way Governance

> Connected Citizenship

> Appropriate Technologies For Online Engagement

> Global Case Studies

References

> PDF (2.5MB!)

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