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¹ B. Barber, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1984.

² D. Held, Models of Participation, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1987.

³ D. Held, Models of Democracy, Blackwell, Cambridge, 1996.

⁴ J. S. Fishkin, The Voice of the People—Public Opinion and Democracy, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London, 1997.

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⁷ OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development), Engaging Citizens in Policy-Making: Information, Consultation and Public Participation, PUMA Policy Brief, Paris, 2001.

⁸ G. Rowe and L. J. Frewer, ‘Evaluating public-participation exercises: a research agenda’, Science, Technology & Human Values, 29(4), 2004, pp. 512–557.

⁹ OECD, Citizens as Partners—Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-Making, OECD Publication Service, Paris, 2001; OECD, Engaging Citizens in Policy-Making, op. cit.; OECD, Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making, OECD Publication Service, Paris, 2004; G. G. Curtis, ‘Issues and challenges—global e-government/e-participation models, measurement and methodology—a framework for moving forward’, Workshop on E-Participation and E-Government: Understanding the Present and Creating the Future, Budapest, Hungary, 2006; Commission of the European Communities, ‘i2010 eGovernment Action Plan: accelerating eGovernment in Europe for the benefit of all’, Communication from the Commission to the Council, COM (2006) 173, European Parliament, European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Brussels, 25 April 2006; P. Timmers, Agenda for eDemocracy—An EU Perspective, European Commission, Brussels, 2007; United Nations, ‘United Nations e-Government Survey 2008—from e-Government to connected Governance’, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, New York, 2008.

¹⁰ G. Rowe and L. J. Frewer, ‘Public participation methods: a framework for evaluation’, Science, Technology & Human Values, 25(1), 2000, pp. 3–29.

¹¹ Saebo, J. Rose and L. S. Flak, ‘The shape of eParticipation: characterizing an emerging research area’, Government Information Quarterly, 25, 2008, pp. 400–428.

¹² OECD, Engaging Citizens Online for Better Policy-Making, OECD Observer Policy Brief, Paris, 2003; OECD, Promise and Problems of e-Democracy: Challenges of Online Citizen Engagement, OECD Publication Service, Paris, 2004.

¹³ A. Macintosh and A. Whyte, ‘Towards an evaluation framework for eParticipation’, Transforming Government: People, Process & Policy, 2(1), 2008, pp. 16–30.

¹⁴ A. Renton and A. Macintosh, ‘Computer supported argument maps as a policy memory’, Information Society Journal, 23(2), 2007, pp. 125–133; E. Loukis, A. Xenakis and N. Tserpeli, ‘Using argument visualization to enhance e-Participation in the legislation formation process’, IFIP First International Conference on e-Participation—ePart 2009, Linz, Austria, September 2009; A. Macintosh, T. F. Gordon and A. Renton, ‘Providing argument support for eParticipation’, Journal of Information, Technology & Politics (JITP), 6(1), 2009, pp. 43–59.

¹⁵ T. F. Gordon and N. Karacapilidis, ‘The Zeno argumentation framework’, paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL '97), 1997; N. Karacapilidis, E. Loukis and S. Dimopoulos, ‘Computer-supported G2G collaboration for public policy and decision making’, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 18(5), 2005, pp. 602–624; A. Xenakis and E. Loukis, ‘An investigation of the use of structured e-Forum for enhancing e-Participation in parliaments’, International Journal of Electronic Governance, 3(2), 2010, pp. 134–147.

¹⁶ OECD, Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide, OECD Publication Service, Paris, 2000; P. Norris, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001; K. Mossberger, C. J. Tolbert and M. Stansbury, Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2003.

¹⁷ T. Jelassi and A. Enders, Strategies for E-Business: Concepts and Cases, FT Prentice Hall, London, 2008; D. Chaffey, E-Business and E-Commerce Management: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, FT Prentice Hall, London, 2009.

¹⁸ D. Santucci, ‘Studying e-petitions: state of the art and challenges’, ESF-LIU Conference on Electronic Democracy, Vadstena, Sweden, 2007; P. Cruickshank, N. Edelmann and C. Smith, ‘Signing an e-Petition as a transition from lurking to participation’, in E. Tambouris, A. Macintosh and O. Glassey (eds), Second IFIP International Conference on Electronic Participation—ePart 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010.

¹⁹ J. Hoff, K. Lofgren and L. Torpe, ‘The state we are in: e-democracy in Denmark’, Information Polity, 8, 2003, pp. 49–66; D. F. Norris, ‘E-Democracy and E-Participation among local governments in the U.S.’, Symposium on E-Participation and Local Democracy, 2006; R. Medaglia, ‘Measuring the diffusion of eParticipation: a survey on Italian local government’, Information Polity, 12, 2007, pp. 265–280; United Nations, op. cit.

²⁰ J. Rose and C. Sanford, ‘Mapping eParticipation research: four central challenges’, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 20, 2007, pp. 909–943; Saebo et al., op. cit.; A. Macintosh, S. Coleman and A. Schneeberger, ‘eParticipation: the research gaps’, in A. Macintosh and E. Tambouris (eds), Electronic Participation: Proceedings of First International Conference—ePart 2009, LNCS 5694, 2009, pp. 1–11.

²¹ Y. Punie, G. Misuraca and D. Osimo, ‘Public Services 2.0: the impact of social computing on public services’, JRC Scientific and Technical Reports, European Commission, Joint Research Centre–Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, 2009; Y. Charalabidis, G. Gionis and E. Loukis, ‘Policy processes support through interoperability with social media’, 5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems 2010 (MCIS 2010), Haifa, Israel, 25–27 September 2010; Y. Charalabidis, G. Gionis, E. Ferro and E. Loukis, ‘Towards a systematic exploitation of Web 2.0 and simulation modeling tools in public policy process’, IFIP Second International Conference on e-Participation—ePart 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, 29 August–2 September 2010.

²² N. Mouzelis, Modern Greece: Facets of Underdevelopment, Macmillan Press, London, 1978; N. Mouzelis, Politics in the Semi-periphery: Early Parliamentarism and Late Industrialization in the Balkans and Latin America, Macmillan Press, London, 1986; N. Mouzelis, From Reform to Modernization, Themelio, Athens, 2002.

²³ J. M. Maravall, ‘Politics and policy: economic reforms in Southern Europe’, in L. C. Bresser Pereira, J. M. Maravall and A. Przeworski (eds), Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social Democratic Approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, pp. 77–131; G. Pagoulatos, ‘Financial interventionism and liberalization in Southern Europe: state, bankers, and the politics of disinflation’, Journal of Public Policy, 23(2), 2003, pp. 171–199; D. A. Sotiropoulos, ‘Southern European public bureaucracies in comparative perspective’, West European Politics, 27(3), 2004, pp. 405–422.