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EGOV 2002: Electronic Government pp 248–255Cite as

Discourse Support Systems for Deliberative Democracy

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The idea of deliberative democracy is to facilitate broad and deep public participation in systematic, constructive discourses about legislation and policy issues, so as to enhance the legitimacy, efficiency, quality, acceptability and accountability of the political process. By discourse support systems we mean groupware designed to support structured, goal-directed discourses. The paper discusses the importance of discourse support systems for deliberative democracy, provides a brief overview of the Open Source Zeno system and mentions several e-democracy pilot applications of Zeno, including the DEMOS project of the European Union.

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  1. Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas F. Gordon

  2. Fraunhofer AIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Gernot Richter

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  1. Institute of Applied Computer Science, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

  2. Lehrstuhl für Verwaltungsinformatik, University of Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

    Klaus Lenk

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Gordon, T.F., Richter, G. (2002). Discourse Support Systems for Deliberative Democracy. In: Traunmüller, R., Lenk, K. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46138-8_40

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