[Air-L] call for papers IPSA

Marcus Abílio Gomes Pereira magopebh at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 5 06:25:54 PDT 2010


Call for papers: IPSA/USP fevereiro de 2011 


The IPSA-ECPR joint conference Whatever Happened to North-South?, hosted by the
Brazilian Political Science Association at the U. of Sao Paulo. 
The conference will be held from February 16 to 19, 2011. 
The Call for Papers will open on Monday, June 28 and close on Friday, August 6, 2010.
Conference Theme: Political Regimes, Democratic Consolidation and the Quality of
Democracy [1]Section: Parties, Institutions and the Quality of Democracy [2]

Can NICT enhance the quality of democracies? Latin America's good practices in
e-democracy

Chair: Prof. Marcus Abilio Pereira, email: magopebh at hotmail.com 
Institution: UFMG/Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Co-Chair
Name: Prof. Sérgio Braga, email: ssbraga at uol.com.br 
Institution: UFPR/Universidade Federal do Paraná

The search for deepening democracy has as its basic points the increase of
government transparency as well as the creation of deliberative spaces between
society and political system. Despite the obstacles arising from the digital divide,
the use of new information and communication technologies (NICT) has been expanding
in Latin American countries, generating high expectations about the possibility of
an increase in the quality of their democracies. Experiences in different countries
have shown that expanded forms of political participation have been developed
through the use of NICT, promoting new opportunities for interaction between civil
society and the political system. These virtual spaces of interaction allow a
reduction of informational asymmetry between political system and society, enriching
the state actors' information repertoire about interests and demands of citizens,
thereby contributing to the improvement of decision-making processes. This panel
seeks to create a space for dialogue to researchers who have produced qualitative
and quantitative studies related to different e-democracy practices in countries of
the "third wave of democratization," emphasizing "best practices" that can produce
effective results in the creation of new and better spaces for political
deliberation and participation of citizens in the various institutions that are part
of democratic political systems of such countries. Submit

Source URL:
http://saopaulo2011.ipsa.org/panel/can-nict-enhance-quality-democracies-latin-america-s-good-practices-e-democracy


Links: 
[1]
http://saopaulo2011.ipsa.org/theme/political-regimes-democratic-consolidation-and-quality-democracy
[2] http://saopaulo2011.ipsa.org/section/parties-institutions-and-quality-democracy 


ssbraga at uol.com.br
skype: ssbraga2
blog: http://netandpolfrombrazil.blogspot.com/

 		 	   		  


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