Deliberative and epistemic approaches to democracy

Deliberative and epistemic approaches to democracy are two important dimensions of contemporary democratic theory. This chapter studies these dimensions in the emerging ecosystem of civic and political participation tools, and appraises their collective value in a new distinct concept: linked democr...

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Autores: Poblet, Marta|||0000-0002-0026-989X, Casanovas, Pompeu|||0000-0002-0980-2371, Rodríguez-Doncel, Víctor|||0000-0001-5770-0882
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:243421
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/243421
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13363-4_2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Deliberative democracy
Epistemic democracy
Semantic web
Institutions
Participatory ecosystems
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Sumario:Deliberative and epistemic approaches to democracy are two important dimensions of contemporary democratic theory. This chapter studies these dimensions in the emerging ecosystem of civic and political participation tools, and appraises their collective value in a new distinct concept: linked democracy. Linked democracy is the distributed, technology-supported collective decision-making process, where data, information and knowledge are connected and shared by citizens online. Innovation and learning are two key elements of Athenian democracies which can be facilitated by the new digital technologies, and a cross-disciplinary research involving computational scientists and democratic theorists can lead to new theoretical insights of democracy.