Pathways and Obstacles to eParticipation at the European level

Authors

  • Romain Badouard University of Technology of Compiègne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v2i2.30

Keywords:

eParticipation, European Union, Online consultation, Civil society organizations, Online activism

Abstract

Since the early 2000's, the European Institutions have set up several eParticipation projects. These projects are embedded in different political strategies and are managed by different actors within the institutions. This leads to a wide variety of projects and prevents the European Union to develop a single and concerted strategy in terms of online participation.
This paper intends to compare two different models of online consultation : the Commission consultations hosted on the site Your Voice in Europe, and the European Citizens' Consultation 2009. The paper tackles three main subjects : the institutional strategies which frame these sites; the actors that they mobilize; their main and collateral effects. The goal of this synthesis is to identify some key features that fit to the european context, in order to assess the possibilities of sustainability of such political experiments.

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Author Biography

Romain Badouard, University of Technology of Compiègne

Phd Candidate, Communication studies

Romain Badouard is a PhD candidate at the University of Technology of Compiègne (France). His research addresses the implementation of e-governement tools within European institutions, and focuses on the ways in which these give rise to new modes of interaction between institutions and citizens. He is also a member of the Vox Internet research program, financed by the National Agency for Scientific Research in France, focused on political and technical dimensions of Internet governance.

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Published

21.09.2010

How to Cite

Badouard, R. (2010). Pathways and Obstacles to eParticipation at the European level. JeDEM - EJournal of EDemocracy and Open Government, 2(2), 99–110. https://doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v2i2.30

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Section

Special Issue: Invited Papers