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Constructing electronic interactions among citizens, issue publics, and elites: the healthcare dialogue project

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Vincent Price,

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dg.o '05: Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research

Pages 139 - 140

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

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This paper describes a longitudinal experiment, now in the final stages of data collection, designed to better understand ways of increasing the effectiveness of web-based deliberations about public policy. Focused on health care reform, the project draws from periodic surveys and a series of online group deliberations to examine the interaction of policy elites and ordinary citizens in online settings, and to test hypotheses related to group composition and decision quality.

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Constructing electronic interactions among citizens, issue publics, and elites: the healthcare dialogue project
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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dg.o '05: Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research

May 2005

328 pages

Conference Chairs:
Lois Delcambre
Portland State University
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Genevieve Giuliano
DGRC and USC/ISI

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Digital Government Society of North America

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Published: 15 May 2005

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May 15 - 18, 2005

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