Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics: New Globalized Practices: New Globalized Practices

Akrivopoulou, Christina M. · Garipidis, Nicolaos

mar 2013 · IGI Global

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The evolution of modern technology has allowed digital democracy and e-governance to transform traditional ideas on political dialogue and accountability.

Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics: New Globalized Practices brings together a detailed examination of the new ideas on electronic citizenship, electronic democracy, e-governance, and digital legitimacy. By combining theory with the study of law and of matters of public policy, this book is essential for both academic and legal scholars, researchers, and practitioners.

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Christina Akrivopoulou holds a PhD in Constitutional Law. Her main research interests concern human and constitutional rights, the protection of the right to privacy, data protection, the private-public distinction and citizenship. She teaches law as a Special Scientist in the faculty of Political Sciences of the Democritus University of Thrace and in the Hellenic Open University, in Greece where she currently lives. She also is a post doctoral researcher of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and she works as an attorney of law at the Thessaloniki Law Bar Association. She is collaborating with several Greek law reviews and she is a member of many non-governmental human rights organizations in Greece and abroad. She has edited for IGI the volume, “Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices” which has been published in 2010.

Nikolaos Garipidis is Attorney at Law in the Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece. He has an LLM in Legal Theory from EALT Brussels and an LLM in History, Philosophy and Methodology of Law from the Aristotle University of the Thessaloniki, where he is currently concluding his doctoral thesis. His main research interests concern democratic theory, the counter majoritarian difficulty, constitutional power, redistributive justice and the right to disobedience. [Editor]