Electronic Democracy and Political Participation

电子民主与政治参与

• 批准号: 9514269
• 负责人: Bruce Bimber
• 金额: $ 7.21万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-02-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9514269&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Electronic; Democracy; Political; Participation

The nascent information superhighway is offering rapidly expanding opportunities for citizens to engage in political activities electronically. `Electronic democracy` projects have generated a great deal of speculation about how new network-based technologies will affect patterns of political access and participation, and ultimately, how these will affect the distribution of political influence and power in the US. This study involves a longitudinal survey of political participation at several electronic democracy sites, with the aim of producing an empirical profile of electronic participators. Data will be collected using on-line surveys at several electronic democracy sites, which will be conducted in three rounds spaced at six-month intervals. Questions will examine socioeconomic status, support for the political system, traditional participation habits, party identification and ideology, and extent of participation in the electronic democracy site. Data from the survey will be used to construct a statistical profile of users of electronic democracy at the sites included in the study. That profile will be compared with a profile of traditional political participators drawn from existing data in the National Election Studies and General Social Survey, and a series of hypotheses about differences between profiles tested. Among the aims of the study are: a) providing evidence about the extent to which the technology of electronic democracy may alleviate or exacerbate problems of access and alienation among low-income, less educated citizens; b) shedding empirical light on the claims of some that the technology may bring about a populist renewal of democracy; and c) exploring a new model of political participation that adds medium of participation to variables for individual-level characteristics and political context.

新生的信息高速公路正在为公民以电子方式参与政治活动提供迅速扩大的机会。 “电子民主”项目引起了大量的猜测，即新的网络技术将如何影响政治准入和参与的模式，以及最终将如何影响美国政治影响力和权力的分配。 本研究涉及在几个电子民主网站的政治参与的纵向调查，与电子参与者的经验配置文件的目的。 将在几个电子民主网站利用在线调查收集数据，调查将分三轮进行，每六个月进行一次。 问题将检查社会经济地位，对政治制度的支持，传统的参与习惯，政党认同和意识形态，以及参与电子民主网站的程度。 调查数据将用于构建研究所包括的网站的电子民主用户的统计概况。 这一概况将与从国家选举研究和一般社会调查的现有数据中得出的传统政治参与者概况以及一系列关于测试概况之间差异的假设进行比较。 这项研究的目的之一是：a）提供证据，说明电子民主技术在多大程度上可以减轻或加剧低收入、受教育程度较低的公民的接触和疏远问题; B）从经验上阐明一些人的说法，即这项技术可能带来民主的民粹主义复兴;（3）探索一种新的政治参与模式，将参与媒介加入到个人层面特征和政治背景的变量中。