Innerparteiliche Willensbildung und Entscheidungsprozesse durch digitale Partizipation. Ein Praxistest des Konzepts der Liquid Democracy

Bullwinkel, Bastian; Probst, Lothar

doi:10.5771/0340-1758-2014-2-382

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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.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…[26] provide the only available data-based insights in voting behaviour within any LD system known; Korthagen &al. [27] provide a description of and some reasons for the decline of LD in this party; Bullwinkel & Probst [10] give insights into the implemented rules of voting and the dynamics of voting in LQFB as used by the German Pirate Party; Buck [9], Zolleis &al. [53], and others [4,31,35,49] described and discussed the use of LD through LQFB in the German Pirate Party during its period of increased popularity and exposure to the public.…”

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“…Political organisations that embraced LD perceived it predominantly as an evolved form of eparticipation. Thus, the German Pirate Party deployed LQFB as a tool to source the view of the party base on which directions the party should take [9,10,24,27,39]. LQFB has been designed as a LD tool for trust delegation and delegated voting, but not for discussions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ten years of liquid democracy research

Paulin¹

2020

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Ten years have passed since in 2009 two independent technical systems pioneered liquid democracy (LD): Župa, a system developed for the Student Organisation of FIS in Slovenia, followed closely by LiquidFeedback, which served the Pirate Party in Berlin, Germany. First academic papers appeared in 2010 targeting the e-democracy research community, and later followed by researchers from artificial intelligence. This paper provides an overview of the scholarly discussions that developed in the past decade, and the technical implementations and initiatives that emerged.

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“…Users can either vote on issues themselves, or delegate their vote for an issue, area, or the entire platform to another user. LQFB has been analysed in many contexts, however most research focuses on the software alone, without considering its wider position as part of a decision-making process [6,24].…”

Section: Online Decision-makingmentioning

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Internet use, in- and exclusion in decision-making processes within political parties

Thuermer

Roth

Luczak-Rösch

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science

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This paper investigates the effect of internet-use on democratic decision-making processes within political parties. Through two case studies of the Green Party and the Pirate Party Germany, the influence of internet-use on these processes and their inclusiveness are shown. We argue that how the internet is used in democratic processes impacts on participation and inclusion.How internet technology interacts with decision making processes within parties depends on the existing party structure and culture. Thus, in order to achieve meaningful and inclusive participation, the institutional framework and the influence it has must be considered in process and tool design. Whereas the affordances of specific online tools have been evaluated, the institutional context in which they are embedded have so far been widely ignored. We offer a structure for analysis of these foundations.

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Innerparteiliche Willensbildung und Entscheidungsprozesse durch digitale Partizipation. Ein Praxistest des Konzepts der Liquid Democracy

Cited by 13 publications

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

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

Ten years of liquid democracy research

Internet use, in- and exclusion in decision-making processes within political parties

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