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E-Democracy and E-Participation in Slovenian Local Self-Government

Simona Kukovič, Marjan Brezov šek

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The paper analyses the usage of e-participation tools in Slovenian municipalities.The paper originates from the theory of e-democracy in connection with information and communication technology (ICT).ICT allows citizen participation and inclusiveness in the processes of decision-making by use of various e-participation tools (e-contact, e-forum, e-survey, e-petition, etc.).An emphasis is placed on local democracy and its various forms, i.e. representative, market, network and (most importantly for this paper) participatory democracy, one of the increasing elements of which is also e-participation.We analysed the official web pages of all 211 Slovenian municipalities and

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The paper analyses the usage of e-participation tools in Slovenian municipalities.The paper originates from the theory of e-democracy in connection with information and communication technology (ICT).ICT allows citizen participation and inclusiveness in the processes of decision-making by use of various e-participation tools (e-contact, e-forum, e-survey, e-petition, etc.).An emphasis is placed on local democracy and its various forms, i.e. representative, market, network and (most importantly for this paper) participatory democracy, one of the increasing elements of which is also e-participation.We analysed the official web pages of all 211 Slovenian municipalities and

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The paper analyses the usage of e-participation tools in Slovenian municipalities.The paper originates from the theory of e-democracy in connection with information and communication technology (ICT).ICT allows citizen participation and inclusiveness in the processes of decision-making by use of various e-participation tools (e-contact, e-forum, e-survey, e-petition, etc.).An emphasis is placed on local democracy and its various forms, i.e. representative, market, network and (most importantly for this paper) participatory democracy, one of the increasing elements of which is also e-participation.We analysed the official web pages of all 211 Slovenian municipalities and

Key concepts: e-participation, E-democracy, Democracy, Participatory democracy, Information and Communications Technology, E-Government, Citizen journalism, Representative democracy

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