The Citizen Lobby: From Capacity to Influence

173 Pages·2015·1.035 MB·English

by  Leif Thomas Olsen

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The Citizen Lobby

Media, Democracy & Political Process Series
Edited by Christian Herzog, Volker Grassmuck,
Christian Heise and Orkan Torun

The Citizen Lobby:
From Capacity
to Influence
Leif Thomas Olsen
Bibliographical Information of the
German National Library
The German National Library lists this publication in the
Deutsche National bibliografie (German National Biblio­
graphy); detailed bibliographic information is available
online at http://dnb.d­nb.de
Published in 2015 by meson press, Hybrid Publishing Lab,
Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
www.meson­press.com
Design concept: Torsten Köchlin, Silke Krieg
Cover Image: Generated with particles.js
The print edition of this book is printed by Lightning Source,
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
ISBN (Print): 978­3­95796­045­0
ISBN (PDF): 978­3­95796­046­7
ISBN (EPUB): 978­3­95796­047­4
DOI: 10.14619/010
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Funded by the EU major project Innovation Incubator
Lüneburg
This Publication is licensed under the CC­BY­SA 4.0 Inter­
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Contents
Foreword 9
Executive summary 11
[1] The framework: From parliamentary democracy
to the Citizen Lobby 15
[2] Jürgen Habermas: The public sphere and its
communicative action 37
[3] Information and computer technology: How is ICT
changing the political playing field?  59
[4] Peer-to-peer: Is P2P the future mode of
democratic action? 83
[5] Liquid Democracy: The term, the systems,
supporters and critics 107
[6] Evolving relationships: The model leading to
the model 119
[7] The Citizen Lobby: The model, the process
and the costs 135
Appendices 151
Literature Reference List 163