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This study examines one use of the internet to enhance representative democracy: the online parliamentary consultations conducted on behalf of the UK Parliament between 1998 and 2002. The study focuses particularly upon two online parliamentary consultations which can be seen to have generated different forms of public discussion. Four research hypotheses about the nature of online public deliberation are tested and some provisional conclusions are offered regarding the value of ICT as a connecting channel between elected representatives and citizens.

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