I’m presenting a paper at the UK Political Studies Association conference in London next week. If you’re at the conference, drop in. Full details on the PSA site.

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I’ve been a member of the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section for longer than I care to remember. I’ve served on its executive committee and I’ve presented quite a few papers to its APSA panels. But over the last few years the section has become an even more interesting scholarly community than it was when I first joined.

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My new journal article: “Explaining the Failure of an Online Citizen Engagement Initiative: The Role of Internal Institutional Variables”

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This article presents an exploratory case study based on fieldwork consisting of in-depth, semistructured interviews and group discussions with administrative, legal, political, and technology staff involved in an online citizen engagement initiative in “TechCounty,” a pseudonymous U.S. local government authority operating in one of the most favorable sociodemographic and technological contexts imaginable.

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