Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as change
laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and as administrative and economic hubs that …

This article advances a new theory of the digital democratic affordance, a concept first
introduced by Lincoln Dahlberg to devise a taxonomy of the democratic capacities of digital …

Free, open-source participatory platforms like Decidim or Consul were designed by the
15M'citizen activists in Spain. Initially implemented in Barcelona and Madrid, these platforms …

The more digital democracy applications lower the costs of political participation, allowing
ordinary citizens to propose their own policy initiatives, the more they increase the burden of …

To what extent are elements of rational-critical debate present in Twitter political networks?
And to what extent are the discursive practices in these networks constitutive of a public …

It is important to understand stakeholders' attitudes toward energy transition policies, or
indeed toward any government proposal. Online news platforms are agoras where media …

Northern Ireland (NI) has pervasively been a fragile and often disputed city-regional nation.
Despite NI's slim majority in favour of remaining in the EU, de facto Brexit, post-pandemic …

How political speech is regulated has changed, with online spaces presenting new
challenges. Private platforms now play a significant role in providing spaces for political …

This paper focusses on the use of technology to improve democracy, comparing the cases of
Estonia and Catalonia. Both examples are closely related in their use of technology to …

Online participatory platforms are introduced to boost citizen involvement in political
decision-making. However, the design features of these platforms vary considerably, and …