TY - JOUR AU - Schefbeck, Günther PY - 2010/04/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Electronic Support for the Legislative Consultation Process JF - JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government JA - JeDEM VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Research Papers DO - 10.29379/jedem.v2i1.20 UR - https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/20 SP - 28-38 AB - The paper outlines the theoretical concepts of (legislative) consultation and describes the practical requirements of electronic support for consultation processes. It suggests that new electronic tools, in particular Social and Semantic Web tools, might have a sound potential to increase within civil society the interest in being involved in consultation processes, to improve the quality of argumentation within such processes, and to make more efficient the evaluation of their results. ER -