Books by IPSA

Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation

By Raphaël Kies Palgrave Macmillan March 2010 200 pages ISBN: 978-0-230-61921-0 ISBN10: 0-230-61921-5 http://us.macmillan.com/promisesandlimitsofwebdeliberation Does the increasing usage of online political forums lead to a more deliberative democracy? This book answers to this question by presenting the evolution of the public spaces in a historical perspective, by defining and operationalizing the deliberative criteria of democracy, and by measuring and evaluating the impact ofvirtualization of the political debates under threes perspectives. It looks at the extent to which different categories of the population debate online, it looks at the categories of actors hosting online political forum, and it assesses the quality of the online political debates in different contexts. The final aim of this work is to provide a more balanced evaluation of the impact of virtualization of the political debates and to enrich the evolving deliberative theory with new findings. The Internet Generation Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts By Henry Milner Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Tufts University Press May 2010 304 Pages 978-1-58465-938-9 978-1-58465-858-0 An investigation of political disengagement among young people in North America and Europe Despite rising levels of education and mounting calls for increased democratic participation, recent years have seen a significant decline in voter turnout in many countries and the erosion of the sense of civic duty that brought earlier generations to the polls. Henry Milner looks at the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, and the European Union to probe the decline of youth voting and attentiveness to politics, drawing lessons from observations of institutions, which could break down the wall between political life and "real" life that underlies political abstention among the Internet generation. Finding civic education the key to instilling habits of attentiveness to public affairs, especially among potential political dropouts, Milner sets out a series of ways to bring the issues-and the political parties' stance on them-to the classroom, including visits, simulations, and innovative use of media, old and new. http://www.upne.com/1-58465-858-4.html