Normative and Institutional Framework for the Emerging Law on Participation and the ICTs: Analysis of Experiences in Spanish Regional Governments
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One of the leading debates today centers on how citizens can make the most of the possibilities offered by ICTs to take part in governmental decision-making processes. These new forms of relationship linking citizens and public power would seem to promote an evolution from a representative democratic system to a conversational and open democracy that complements and perfects it. The aim of this paper is to analyze the regulations on electronic participation adopted in the Spanish autonomous communities, their application, and the political and social effects. These reflections are on part of the global reality that ICTs are generating. They focus on institutional initiatives, leaving to one side other movements arising from the citizens themselves beyond the scope of the institutional framework. The main conclusion reached in this review is that ICTs are another tool for increasing the right to participation, bearing in mind that e-democracy is, above all else, democracy.
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