Die Nutzung kollaborativer Online-Plattformen durch Parteien: „Top down“ oder „bottom up“?

Hanel, Katharina; Marschall, Stefan

doi:10.5771/1430-6387-2012-1-5

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“…Therefore, it is no surprise that many political parties have made attempts to engage their members via online means, not least in Germany. However, evaluations of these efforts, both for established parties (Hanel & Marschall, ; Koch, Rapp, & Hilgers, ) as well as for the German Pirate Party (Bieber & Lewitzki, ; Buck, ; Bullwinkel & Probst, ), found that they produce dissatisfaction among participants. This is clearly related to the fact that so far the participation processes have had little relevance for party policy, as the existing hierarchies (i.e., the party elites) have retained a tight control on the processes and their outcomes.…”

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Online Deliberation in Academia: Evaluating the Quality and Legitimacy of Cooperatively Developed University Regulations

Escher¹,

Frieß²,

Esau³

et al. 2016

Policy & Internet

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This article focuses on the potential of online participation to enable the cooperative development of norms by affected stakeholders, investigating whether such processes can produce norms of both high quality and legitimacy. To answer this question, we designed, implemented, and evaluated an online norm setting process that goes beyond the scope of those usually described in the literature. Taking as a case study a process to redraft the examination regulations for doctoral degrees at a science faculty of a German university, we show that such instances of online deliberation can integrate the diversity of opinions of all affected stakeholders. The result was a norm that implemented previously controversial external recommendations for doctoral dissertation procedures and that was met with high satisfaction from both those who participated as well as those who remained passive. While we believe that the university context in which this process was conducted is particularly promising for such efforts because of its organization, its members, and the issue that was at stake, we argue that similar conducive conditions exist, for example, for political parties. As such, the findings can be instructive for understanding the potential and limits of successful online participation in other contexts.

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