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Contributors -- Prologue -- Introduction -- CONCEPTUALISATION -- 1. Interdisciplinarity and Mixed Methods -- 2. The Concept of Democracy -- 3. Art as a Creative and Critical Public Space -- 4. Plural Democracy -- ELICITATION -- 5. Criteria Weight Elicitation -- A Comparative Study -- 6. Cardinal and Rank Ordering of Criteria with Clouds -- 7. Attitude Ranking -- 8. Evaluating ICT and Development -- 9. A Mobile Urban Drama as a Model for Interactive Elicitation -- CALCULATION -- 10. Multi-Criteria Decision Making -- 11. Comparing MCDA Methods -- 12. Algorithms for Decision Analysis -- APPLICATIONS -- 13. A Model for Flood Risk Management: Bac Hung Hai -- 14. A Model for Flood Risk Management: Tisza -- 15. Roşia Montană Gold Exploitation -- 16. Decision Making in Urban Planning -- 17. Actory: Visualising Reputational Power to Promote Deliberation -- 18. Njaru: Developing Tools for Deliberation in Multiple Public Spheres -- 19. Evaluation of an Online Learning Environment -- 20. A Low Carbon Society by 2050 -- The Stockholm-Mälar Region Case -- Epilogue -- Publications.
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"What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb? In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens' input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is balancing on the borders of inclusion, structure, precision and accuracy. To simply enable more participation will not yield enhanced democracy, and there is a clear need for more elaborated elicitation and decision analytical tools. This rigorous and thought-provoking volume draws on a stimulating variety of international case studies, from flood risk management in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, to the consideration of alternatives to gold mining in Roșia Montană in Transylvania, to the application of multi-criteria decision analysis in evaluating the impact of e-learning opportunities at Uganda's Makerere University. Editors Love Ekenberg (senior research scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [IIASA], Laxenburg, professor of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University), Karin Hansson (artist and research fellow, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University), Mats Danielson (vice president and professor of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, affiliate researcher, IIASA) and Göran Cars (professor of Societal Planning and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) draw innovative collaborations between mathematics, social science, and the arts. They develop new problem formulations and solutions, with the aim of carrying decisions from agenda setting and problem awareness through to feasible courses of action by setting objectives, alternative generation, consequence assessments, and trade-off clarifications. As a result, this book is important new reading for decision makers in government, public administration and urban planning, as well as students and researchers in the fields of participatory democracy, urban planning, social policy, communication design, participatory art, decision theory, risk analysis and computer and systems sciences."--Publisher's website.
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Information technology-- Political aspects.
Internet in public administration, Case studies.
Political participation-- Evaluation.
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Information technology-- Political aspects.
Internet in public administration.
Political participation-- Social aspects.
Political participation-- Technological innovations.
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Political structures: democracy.
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