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Syllabus: Electronic Democracy
Professor: Peter M. Shane
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| 1 | What is Electronic Democracy? |
Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement
in Policy Deliberation by Stephen Coleman and John Gøtze, pp. 3-35 http://bowlingtogether.net/bowlingtogether.pdf |
| 2 | Introduction to Democratic Theory - What is
Democracy? Is Technology Inherently Anti/Democratic? |
Benjamin R. Barber, Three Scenarios for the
Future of Technology and Strong Democracy, Political Science Quarterly,
Vol 113, No. 4 (1999), 573-589 Robert E. Goodin and Philip Petit, An Anthology of Contemporary Political Philosophy, "Democracy," 105-128 and 143-154 |
| 3 | Discussion of Class Project |
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| 4 | Democratic Theory (Continued) – Does
Cyberspace Governance Need Deliberative Democracy? Architectures of Democracy |
Larry Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace |
| 5 | Democratic Theory (Continued) – Getting
Past Naive Cyberoptimism |
Peter M. Shane, The Electronic Federalist:
The Internet and the Eclectic Institutionalization of Democratic Legitimacy Anthony Wilhelm, Democracy in the Digital Age, 13-67 |
| 6 | Can IT promote democratic revitalization?
Technological possibilities and issues of control |
Tim Berners Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original
Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, 1-23, 123-131, 177-198 William Mitchell, City of Bits, 7-24, 47-82 Susan Crawford, The ICANN Experiment |
| 7 | Social theory of cyberspace |
Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs, 29-61, 183-215 Neil Postman, Technopoly, 107-122 James Gleick, Faster, 83-101 |
| 8 | Social theory of cyberspace - continued |
Manuel Castells, The Power of Identity (The
Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. II), 5-67, 309-362. |
| 9 | Designing for Democracy - Round One |
Michael Dertouzos, The Unfinished Revolution:
Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us, 1-22, 71-123 |
| 10 | Designing for Democracy - Round Two |
Steven Johnson, Interface Culture - peruse
entire book |
| 11 | Can IT promote democratic revitalization?
Broadband deployment and the role of public policy |
Digital Rivers Final Report, Sections 5 and 8 |
| 12 | Problems of Globalization |
University Lecture by GEORGE SOROS McConomy Auditorium – 4:30 pm |
| 13 | Can IT promote democratic revitalization?
Digital divide |
Pippa Norris, The Worldwide Digital Divide:
Information Poverty, the Internet and Development www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip/governance/psa2000dig.pdf Pippa Norris, Digital Divide? Civic Engagement, Information Poverty & the Internet in Democratic Societies, Chs. 1, 4, 11 ksghome.harvard.edu/~.pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/book1.htm |
| 14 | Can IT promote democratic revitalization?
Human capacity and social relations |
Sullivan and Borgida, et al., A Tale of Two
Towns: Assessing the Role of Political Resources in a Community Electronic
Network Dan Hunter, Philipic.com |
| 15 | Designing On-Line Deliberation 1 |
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
at Harvard Law School Online Deliberative Discourse Research Project,
Phase 1: Specification for Online Environment Platform http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projects/deliberation/ |
| 16 | Designing On-Line Deliberation 2 |
Lincoln Dahlberg , Extending the Public Sphere
through Cyberspace:
The Case of Minnesota E-Democracy, First Monday, volume 6, number 3 (March
2001) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/dahlberg/index.html John Seely Brown and Paul DeGuid, The Social Life of Information, 63-115 www.e-democracy.org |
| 17 | On-line rulemaking |
Final Blackletter Statement of Administrative
Law, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, pp. 12-16 Brandon and Carlitz, Online Rulemaking: a Tool for Strengthening Civic Infrastructure Beierle, Democracy On-Line: An Evalution of the National Dialogue on Public Involvement in EPA Decisions www.regulation.gov |
| 18 | Online Citizen-Government Interaction |
Elena Larsen and Lee Rainie, Digital Town
Hall: How Local Officials Use the Internet and the Civic Benefits They
Cite from Dealing with Constituents Online (Pew Internet and American
Life Project, Oct. 2, 2002). Elena Larsen and Lee Rainie, The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies’ Web Sites (Pew Internet and American Life Project, Apr. 3, 2002). |
| 19 | E-Democracy and Public Information Policy |
John B. Horrigan and Lee Rainie, Counting
on the Internet: Most Expect to Find Key Information Online; Most Find
the Information They Seek; Many Now Turn to the Internet First (Pew Internet
and American Life Project, Dec. 29, 2002). European Commission, Public Sector Information: A Key Resource for Europe - Green Paper on Public Sector Information in the Information Society Final Blackletter Statement of Administrative Law, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, pp. 38-53. Congressional Research Service Summary of the E-Government Act of 2002 |
| 20 | Small-group dialogue - Web Lab |
Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard, Transforming
Dialogue: Web Lab’s Explorations At the Frontiers Of Online Community:
An Evaluation Report for Web Lab (July, 2000). www.weblab.org |
| 21 | Deliberative Polling |
Robert C. Luskin, James S. Fishkin, and Dennis
L. Plane, Deliberative Polling and Policy Outcomes: Electric Utility Issues
in Texas By the People, National Issues Convention: Overview of Results (Philadelphia, PA Jan. 10-12, 2003) Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin, Deliberation Day |
| 22 | Citizen Juries |
Jefferson Center, The Citizens Jury Process Jefferson Center, Final Report on Citizens Jury on Climate Change, March 18 - 22, 2002 |
| 23 | Politicians On-Line |
Pew Research Center for the People and the
Press and the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Political Sites
Gain, But Major News Sites Still Dominant: Modest Increase in Internet
Use for Campaign 2002 (Jan. 5, 2003). Congressional Management Foundation, Congress Online: Assessing and Improving Capitol Hill Web Sites (2002). Michael Cornfield, Lee Rainie, and John B. Horrigan, Untuned Keyboards: Online Campaigners, Citizens, And Portals in the 2002 Elections |
| 24 | Electronic voting |
Pippa Norris, E-Voting as the Magic Ballot?
The impact of Internet voting on turnout in European Parliamentary elections
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/ACROBAT/Magic
%20Ballot.pdf MIT, Caltech Join Forces to Develop Reliable, US Voting Machine, MIT News Thousands Vote On-Line in Arizona, New York Times |
| 25 | Review of class projects |
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| 26 | Review of class projects |
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