Signing an e-petition as a transition from lurking to participation.
Book
Cruickshank, P., Edelmann, N., & Smith, C. F. (2009)
Signing an e-petition as a transition from lurking to participation. In J. Chappellet, O. Glassey, M. Janssen, A. Macintosh, J. Scholl, E. Tambouris, & M. Wimmer (Eds.), Electronic Government and Electronic Participation, 275-282. Trauner
As one form of online political participation, the e-petitioning is seen as a response to a perceived decline in public trust of political institutions and the associated sym...
An intelligent front-end for government websites.
Book
Cruickshank, P., & Macintosh, A. (2005)
An intelligent front-end for government websites. In P. Cunningham, & M. Cunningham (Eds.), Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies, 427-434. IOS press
The HANDS question-answering and direction application, consisting of Answer Tree and Address Guesser modules is described in relation to the EDEN project from which it is der...
Young People and e-Democracy: Creating a Culture of Participation
Conference Proceeding
Masters, Z., Masters, Z., Macintosh, A., & Smith, E. (2004)
Young People and e-Democracy: Creating a Culture of Participation. In R. Traunmuller (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Electronic Government. , (15-22). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_3
Research originally suggested that new technologies, particularly the Internet, provided a useful mechanism for engaging young people - an otherwise largely disenfranchised gr...
A social shaping perspective on an e-Governmental system(ic) failure.
Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2004)
A social shaping perspective on an e-Governmental system(ic) failure. In R. Traunmüller (Ed.), Electronic Government, 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_31
The paper that follows is concerned with the communities of interest (or actor networks) and communities of practice that articulate the delivery of e-government services, and...
Political parties and democracy in the information age.
Book
Löfgren, K., & Smith, C. F. (2003)
Political parties and democracy in the information age. In R. Gibson, P. Nixon, & S. Ward (Eds.), Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain?, 39-52. Routledge
Technology to support participatory democracy.
Book Chapter
Macintosh, A., Davenport, E., Malina, A., & Whyte, A. (2002)
Technology to support participatory democracy. In Å. Grönlund (Ed.), Electronic Government: design, applications and management, 226-248. Idea Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-19-8.ch011
This chapter focuses on the development, application and impact of information and communication technology on civic representation and participation in the democratic process...
Political parties and democracy: theorising the relationships.
Presentation / Conference
Löfgren, K., & Smith, C. F. (2001, September)
Political parties and democracy: theorising the relationships. Paper presented at European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference; meeting of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization in Public Administration, Vaasa, Finland
Managing parliaments in the 21st Century.
Book
(2000)
P. Falconer, C. F. Smith, & W. Webster (Eds.), Managing parliaments in the 21st Century. IOS Press
This book reports on the endeavour, undertaken by EGPA, to make the discipline of public administration fruitful for the management of parliaments. The theme was deemed approp...
British political parties: continuity and change in the information age.
Book
Smith, C. F. (1999)
British political parties: continuity and change in the information age. In I. Horrocks, J. Hoff, & P. Tops (Eds.), Democratic Governance and New Technology: Technologically Mediated Innovations in Political Practice in Western Europe, 72-87. Routledge
Political parties in the information age: from 'mass party' to leadership organization?
Book
Smith, C. F. (1997)
Political parties in the information age: from 'mass party' to leadership organization?. In I. Snellen, & W. Donk (Eds.), Public Administration in an Information Age, A Handbook, 175-190. IOS Press
In providing an overview of British political parties on the threshold of the 'information age', this chapter argues that any thorough analysis is incomplete without addressin...