Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously
revolutionised education, business or the arts. Thus, there is a growing
interest in areas of e-government and, more recently, e-democracy.
However, most attempts in this field have just envisioned standard
political approaches facilitated by technology, like e-voting or
e-debating. Alternatively, we could devise a more transforming strategy
based on deploying web based group decision support tools and promote
their use for public policy decision making.
This book delineates how this approach could be implemented. It
addresses foundations, basic methodologies, potential implementation and
applications, together with a thorough discussion of the many
challenging issues.
This innovative text will be of interest to students, researchers and
practitioners in the fields of e-government, e-democracy and
e-participation and research in decision analysis, negotiation analysis
and group decision support.