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EU Profiler: voting advice application for the 2009 EP elections
(originally posted here) Here’s a link to a video about the EU Profiler, a Voting Advice Application for the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections....
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Technology and Politicians’ Promises
Increasingly popular, promise-tracking platforms are software solutions designed to track the extent to which elected officials fulfil their promises made during electoral campaigning. David Sasaki...
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The Arab Spring and Egyptian Revolution Makers: Predictors of Participation
By Mansoor Moaddel This paper juxtaposes two clusters of theories; political conflict, resource mobilization, organizational, and political opportunity theories, on the one hand, and mass society,...
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Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa?
picture by Teseum on flickr. Masayuki Kudamatsu (2006) Does democracy help babies survive in sub-Saharan Africa? By using retrospective fertility surveys conducted in 28 African countries, I compare...
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David Karpf on Netroots and the MoveOn Effect
David Karpf lecture at the American University on the impact of technologies on political activism. A brief description of the talk from the Center for Social Media website: Karpf walked his audience...
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My Reading Suggestions (Part One)
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional Tom Steinberg asked me for a list of my favorite recent reads. So here’s the first part of a rather disorganized list of readings and other resources, with sporadic...
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Argentina: Does Electoral Accountability Make a Difference?
picture by Andrea Jara S on Flickr Does Electoral Accountability Make a Difference? Direct Elections, Career Ambition, and Legislative Performance in the Argentine Senate By Juan Pablo Micozzi The...
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Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism? Experimental Evidence...
picture by geezaweezer on flickr Brilliant paper by Leonard Wantchekon This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of “informed” town hall meetings on electoral support for programmatic,...
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Unequal Participation: Open Government’s Unresolved Dilemma
( cross-posted from techPresident) In my frequent conversations about open government and citizen participation, the subject of elite capture (or “how representative it is”) is almost unavoidable. Some...
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Open Government and Democracy
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) has recently released the results of the Open Budget Survey 2012, which measures “the state of budget transparency, participation and oversight in 100...
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Diamond’s Course on Democratic Development
I just found out that on April 3rd Coursera started offering a new series of lectures on Democratic Development with Larry Diamond. Here’s a brief description of the course: This course is intended as...
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Isolating the Effects of Electoral Participation on Political Efficacy and...
By Victoria Shineman There is a rich literature discussing the effects of participation, and a growing number of studies have tried to estimate proposed effects using empirical data. However,...
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A Dynamic Model of Protest
A nice animation based on a paper by Adam Meirowitz (Princeton) and Joshua Tucker (New York University). The video explains why citizens who take action to overthrow bad governments might eventually...
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Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants?
Article by Catherine Bolzendahl and Hilde Coffé recently published at Political Studies (2013): Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants? Testing Citizenship Norms and Political Participation across 25...
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The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability
My article in response to Yu and Robinson’s recent paper on open data has just been published in the UCLA Law Review Discourse: The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability: A...
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Italian Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of the Internet on Political...
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We exploit differences in the availability of ADSL broadband...
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Rethinking Why People Participate
Having a refined understanding of what leads people to participate is one of the main concerns of those working with citizen engagement. But particularly when it comes to participatory democracy, that...
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Who Participates in Africa? Dispelling the Myth
picture by Britanny Danisch on flickr. Whenever discussing participation in Africa (as well as in other developing contexts) the issue of “who participates” often emerges. A constant in these...
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Education, Information Credibility, and Control of Corruption
Cartoon by Winsor McCay (1930), archived by Alan Light on Flickr. Here’s an interesting paper by Weitz-Shapiro and Winters (2014) on the role of education in political control of corruption, which...
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A Brilliant Story of Participation, Technology and Development Outcomes
A major argument for democratic governance is that more citizen participation leads to better outcomes through an improved alignment between citizens’ preferences and policies. But how does that play...
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