E-Participation - Science topic

Obviously, real democracy is possible only when each voter has enough intellectual power and knowledge. It would be great to have something like exams for driver or shooter licence - "voter licence" - basic questions from history, logic, fundamentals of natural sciences (school level). Otherwise, it is not democracy, it is ochlocracy: TV stars, sportsmen, populists, etc. (of course, paid by serious persons - oligarchs, who will get real power) to be elected.

There is one nice movie "Idiocracy" (2006), looks like a prediction...

Hello Mustafa,

No; the parcels refer to the observed scores used to estimate the 11 IVs and 1 DV, not to combining sets of the latent variables/factors.

One final point: You can still have low correlations/loadings/path coefficients among the latent variables and obtain superb model-data fit, if those (low) coefficients work well to reproduce the observed relationships in the data set. In other words, the model could be an accurate portrayal of relatively modest relationships among the constructs of interest.

Good luck with your work.

I attached few of mine... I focused on e-participation and voting...  E-election is not much available... I am working on one now and another one was submitted to a journal recently

 Hi Nora,

In general, this recruitment strategy should be acceptable. You will need to work with your institutions Human Subjects of Research ethics review panel to make sure you are protecting the anonymity and rights of potential participants.

All the best,

Craig

I just read an article by Maria A. Wimmer entitled Mobile Participation: Exploring Mobile Tools in E-Participation... Take a look: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295402355_Mobile_Participation_Exploring_Mobile_Tools_in_E-Participation 

Hallo Joanna

Participation in my country has a low voice . It is related to whom they pay for the project 

Prof. Ewa Ziemba  , thank you very much for this paper.

Good Project, Dear Mathias and wish you well. Besides whatever else you may consider for your study, I recommend that you spend time on the work of Kaufmann, et al., who have developed the World Governance Indicators (WGI) in which Transparency is one of the crucial indicators. They have developed considerable standards and rated countries which will help you to streamline and evolve your thinking apart from giving you a number of sources from which you can draw data.

Transparency International is another source you can explore.

My work in straddling the area of governance and participative democracy. Good luck to you.

Dear Andrea,

One of the methods exercised nowadays in Poland is particiapatory budget, when people directly decide what kind of investments in community they really need. I agree with you that this is fantastic. Good luck with your study!

Best regards,

Mariusz

Spain is highly active in cyber activism. Change.org is a widely used platform in my country. A lot of iniciatives had collected more than 300,000 signatures, a remarkable amount in a country of 46 million people. Newspapers and tv news make reference to iniciatives in this page most of the weeks.

Among the most successful actions I would highlight:

-Change in Spectacles Law in Madrid Region as a result of 428k signatures.

-A Spanish woman affected by cancer comes back from a Bolivian prison, 175k people signed the petition.

-After the scandal of corruption in the political party currently governing Spain more than 1.2 million signatures were collected to ask for the dimission of the prime minister. 

Currently there are two well-known iniciatives:

-Change in law to outlaw webpages to foster anorexia

-Today a lot of people had signed to save the dog of the first woman infected by ebola in Madrid because the authorities want to kill it. There are more than 150k signatures in a few hours.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (UK) has commissioned some very useful reports on community participation tools and evaluation http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/what-works-assessing-community-participation

As a contribution to those interested in the subject, here are the links of some manuals:

1) Handbuch zur partizipation : http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/soziale_stadt/partizipation/download/Handbuch_Partizipation.pdf

2) Grundkonzeption für den Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2015: https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/VerkehrUndMobilitaet/bvwp-2015-grundkonzeption-langfassung.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

3) Leitlinien für mitgestaltende Bürgerbeteiligung in der Stadt Heidelberg: http://www.heidelberg.de/site/Heidelberg_ROOT/get/documents/heidelberg/PB5Documents/pdf/12_pdf_Buergerbeteiligung_LeitlinienEnd.pdf

Transformation of government also need to involve citizens as stakeholder. By doing so then you can grantee the trust. Other wise transforming without citizen involvement of citizens my end up citizen increasing the gap between the government and citizens, and this will lead to no trust as they are not part of anything going on in the government side.