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Promise and perils of ‘virtual representation’: The public view

This opinion survey of online political transactions in the United Kingdom explores citizens’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours with respect to their Members of Parliament (MP) and representative institutions; citizens’ behaviours and attitudes concerning the use of the Internet – the web and email – to interact with British representative institutions and MPs; citizens’ knowledge of, and attitudes toward, a range of currently available onlinepolitical transactions – e-government, e-voting and e-democracy – involving a rangeof British political institutions; and socio-demographic controls including gender, age, education, working status, socialgrade, income, digital technologies in the home, location.(Original source: http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/ESRCResearchproject/papers/Virtual_representation_report_full_2005.pdf)

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Languages:
English
Year:
2005
Date published:
10-02-2016
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