The open parliament in the age of the internet : can the people now collaborate with legislatures in lawmaking?
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2013
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Câmara dos Deputados, Edições Câmara
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This work seeks to address
those questions and evaluate
other international experiences
and experiments designed to
achieve the same ends. The
book is based on a study of
two particular cases where
parliamentary bodies designed
and implemented participatory
digital processes, namely, the
e-Democracy Program developed
by the Brazilian House of
Representatives, and the Virtual
Senator Program developed
by the Chilean Senate. The
text unfolds in the form of a
systematic analysis of institutional
aspects embracing political and
organizational elements as well as
the social aspects associated to the
application of digital democracy
in parliaments.
The investigation shows that at
the stage they found themselves
in 2010 those projects had
only brought in very incipient
results in regard to the aspects
of enhancing representativity
in decision making processes,
aggregating collective intelligence
to the legislative process or
transparency to parliamentary
performances, even though all of
those are precious components
of any democracy that deems
itself to be participatory and
deliberative. Nevertheless, such
experiences have had the merit of
contributing towards the gradual
construction of more effective
participatory mechanisms,
complementary to the political
representation system in place.
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Processo legislativo, participação social, Participação política, estudo de caso, Brasil, Participação política, estudo de caso, Chile, Tecnologia da informação, aspectos sociais, Democracia