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eParticipation – Did We Deliver What We Promised?

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This contribution attempts to critically compare the vision of online citizen participation to the developments that can be observed in the field thus far. The analysis then focuses on areas of improvement to help develop this area further. The main focus is on the evolution in the European Union, however, general conclusions may be drawn beyond that.

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  1. Department of Information Processing and Process Management, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Augasse 2-6, A-1090, Austria

    Alexander Prosser

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  2. Center for European Public Administration, Danube University Krems, 3500, Krems, Austria

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  3. A-SIT, Secure Information Technology Center - Austria, Inffeldgasse 16a, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Herbert Leitold

  4. University of Economics and Business, Augasse 2-6, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Alexander Prosser

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Prosser, A. (2012). eParticipation – Did We Deliver What We Promised?. In: Kő, A., Leitner, C., Leitold, H., Prosser, A. (eds) Advancing Democracy, Government and Governance. EGOVIS/EDEM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32701-8_2

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