The politics of new technologies in local government.

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Electronic democracy: Themes and issues

Despite their prevalence in all areas of economic and social life, ICTs, and their implications, continue to be largely ignored by UK political science. Yet the potential of modern ICTs to profoundly alter poltical, social and economic relations is extensive. This article is a brief discussion of the main themes and issues that arise from an exploration of ICTs in relation to democracy: that is, electronic democracy

Renewing local democracy?:The modernisation agenda in British Local Government

Bringing together research on different features of the democratic renewal agenda to investigate how local authorities are responding, this text includes a contribution from the main architect of the modernization, Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong.</p