Abstract:The United Kingdom's 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union is perhaps one of the most important recent electoral events in the UK. This political sentiment has confounded pollsters, media commentators and academics alike, and has challenged elected Members of the Westminster Parliament. Unfortunately, for many areas of the UK this referendum outcome is not known for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies, rather it is known for the coarser geography of counting areas. This study uses novel data… Show more
“…Paper ID F-measure [44,45,47,48,57,58,60,64,66,73,77,80,82,86] Precision [43,45,57,60,62,66,67,73,[76][77][78]80,82,86] Accuracy [43,44,46,62,63,69,70,73,[76][77][78]80,82] Recall [45,52,57,60,62,66,73,77,78,80,82,…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The vast majority of studies on the application of AI in eParticipation concern Citizens and Government Institutions. Reference is made to politicians as potentially interested in the adoption of a proposed application or technology [72,75], as directly interested in the results of research [52] or within the context of parliamentary debates about ePetitions [44]. Voluntary Organizations are mentioned in one study, while Researchers are not mentioned in any study.…”
Section: Eparticipation Actorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The second category of eParticipation activities pertains to citizens' requests, commonly known as ePetitions. Studies in this domain frequently involve analyzing existing requests to extract citizen opinions [56,59] or derive other insightful conclusions [52]. Efforts are also made to develop methods facilitating citizens in drafting requests [61,86].…”
Electronic Participation (eParticipation) enables citizens to engage in political and decision-making processes using information and communication technologies. As in many other fields, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently started to dictate some of the realities of eParticipation. As a result, an increasing number of studies are investigating the use of AI in eParticipation. The aim of this paper is to map current research on the use of AI in eParticipation. Following PRISMA methodology, the authors identified 235 relevant papers in Web of Science and Scopus and selected 46 studies for review. For analysis purposes, an analysis framework was constructed that combined eParticipation elements (namely actors, activities, effects, contextual factors, and evaluation) with AI elements (namely areas, algorithms, and algorithm evaluation). The results suggest that certain eParticipation actors and activities, as well as AI areas and algorithms, have attracted significant attention from researchers. However, many more remain largely unexplored. The findings can be of value to both academics looking for unexplored research fields and practitioners looking for empirical evidence on what works and what does not.
“…Paper ID F-measure [44,45,47,48,57,58,60,64,66,73,77,80,82,86] Precision [43,45,57,60,62,66,67,73,[76][77][78]80,82,86] Accuracy [43,44,46,62,63,69,70,73,[76][77][78]80,82] Recall [45,52,57,60,62,66,73,77,78,80,82,…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The vast majority of studies on the application of AI in eParticipation concern Citizens and Government Institutions. Reference is made to politicians as potentially interested in the adoption of a proposed application or technology [72,75], as directly interested in the results of research [52] or within the context of parliamentary debates about ePetitions [44]. Voluntary Organizations are mentioned in one study, while Researchers are not mentioned in any study.…”
Section: Eparticipation Actorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The second category of eParticipation activities pertains to citizens' requests, commonly known as ePetitions. Studies in this domain frequently involve analyzing existing requests to extract citizen opinions [56,59] or derive other insightful conclusions [52]. Efforts are also made to develop methods facilitating citizens in drafting requests [61,86].…”
Electronic Participation (eParticipation) enables citizens to engage in political and decision-making processes using information and communication technologies. As in many other fields, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently started to dictate some of the realities of eParticipation. As a result, an increasing number of studies are investigating the use of AI in eParticipation. The aim of this paper is to map current research on the use of AI in eParticipation. Following PRISMA methodology, the authors identified 235 relevant papers in Web of Science and Scopus and selected 46 studies for review. For analysis purposes, an analysis framework was constructed that combined eParticipation elements (namely actors, activities, effects, contextual factors, and evaluation) with AI elements (namely areas, algorithms, and algorithm evaluation). The results suggest that certain eParticipation actors and activities, as well as AI areas and algorithms, have attracted significant attention from researchers. However, many more remain largely unexplored. The findings can be of value to both academics looking for unexplored research fields and practitioners looking for empirical evidence on what works and what does not.
“…These UK data have been used in a diverse range of quantitate research studies. These include a desire to understand what linguistic factors may influence the popularity of e-petitions (Clark and Lomax, 2020), the interaction of e-petitions with social media (Asher et al, 2019), the estimation of electoral outcomes (Clark et al, 2018), how the design of a platform can influence usage (Hale et al, 2018), what e-petitions on a single topic tells us about citizens' concerns (Kolosok et al, 2021), and how to group together constituencies (Clark et al, 2017).…”
Section: E-petitioning and Its Relevance To The Diasporamentioning
Gaining an understanding of the concerns and aspirations of a country’s diaspora can help domestic politicians to better connect with this community and gain their support in elections. The United Kingdom’s diaspora is large and spread among many countries, and currently has the right to vote in UK general elections only for a limited time. However, there are proposals to abolish these time limits and this will make this community of increasing interest to politicians. This study uses signatories to the UK Parliaments e-petitions platform to gain an understanding of the foreign and domestic political concerns of this community. The analysis uses Latent Dirichlet allocation to identify common topics among the e-petitions and hierarchical clustering to identify commonalities among countries, territories and regions. It is found that there are five meaningful groups of such, and they are diverse in the topics that are of most concern.
“…De même, des scientifiques travaillant sur des systèmes et des pays différents y voient un moyen pour l'Union européenne de « faire participer » (Mosca et Santucci, 2009), un outil permettant aux autorités d'obtenir un retour (« feedback ») sur leurs politiques (Panagiotopoulos, Elliman, 2012), un instrument au service de la légitimité des institutions représentatives (Bochel, 2013), un moyen simple et à faible coût pour connaître l'opinion de la population (Puschmann et al, 2017), une forme de sismographe de l'opinion (Morva, 2016), une source d'information à développer (Dumas et al, 2017), voire, dans le cas de la Chine, un instrument qui permettrait une meilleure écoute de la population et une meilleure connaissance des problèmes soulevés (Jiang, Meng, Zhang, 2019 ;Wang, Zhong, 2020). Certains travaux proposent du reste de mettre en place des outils d'analyse automatique des pétitions en vue d'en faire des outils au service de l'action politique, sur le modèle des sondages d'opinion (Hagen et al, 2015(Hagen et al, , 2018Karpf, 2016 ;Clark, Morris, Lomax, 2018). D'autres, à partir du système utilisé en Turquie, concluent même que la procédure a plutôt renforcé le gouvernement central en substituant à des relations plus personnelles une structure hiérarchique informelle (Karkin, Janssen, 2020).…”
Section: L'e-pétitionnement Et La Problématique Des Effets De La Part...unclassified
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