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Can the Internet Strengthen Democracy?

Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity (2017), viii, 142 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 120-125

ISBN 978-1-5095-0837-2 (pbk)

Signature commbox: 70-Politics-E 2017

"In this short book, internationally renowned scholar of political communication, Stephen Coleman, argues that the best way to strengthen democracy is to re-invent it for the twenty-first century. Governments and global institutions have failed to seize the opportunity to democratise their ways of operating, but online citizens are ahead of them, developing practices that could revolutionise the exercise of political power." (Publisher description)
1 The great missed opportunity, 1
2 Political Hopes and Fears, 28
3 Democratic limbo, 56
4 Populism or Democracy? 84