Cyber-democracy? Information and Communication Technologies in Civil Society Consultations for Sustainable Development
| Autor: | Senit, C.A., Kalfagianni, A., Biermann, F.H.B., Global Sustainability Governance, Environmental Governance |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Global Sustainability Governance, Environmental Governance |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Sustainable development
Civil society Economic growth Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Context (language use) ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Public administration Transparency (behavior) 050601 international relations 0506 political science Public international law Information and Communications Technology Political Science and International Relations Accountability 050602 political science & public administration ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY Democratization Sociology Safety Research General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier Global Governance, 22(4), 533. Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| ISSN: | 1075-2846 |
| Popis: | Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are increasingly used to engage civil society in intergovernmental negotiations on sustainable development. They have emerged as a potential remedy to the democratic legitimacy deficit that pervades traditional mechanisms for civil society representation, and ultimately, intergovernmental policymaking. However, many observers have contested the benefits of ICT for democratization on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Sénit contributes to this debate by evaluating the democratic legitimacy of ICT in civil society consultations in intergovernmental policy, taking the numerous online Dialogues of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20 conference”) as a case study. She argues that despite its promise, ICT reinforce rather than reverse embedded participatory inequalities in a global context, and fail to substantially increase transparency and accountability. This prevents, in turn, a meaningful participation of civil society in intergovernmental negotiations, thus indicating the limits of “cyber-democracy.” |
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