Donald Norris and Christopher Reddick
Whatever the causes, the reality is that there is very little e‐democracy at the American grassroots. Based on the available evidence, we suspect that the state of e‐democracy at the American grassroots it is not likely to change much in the foreseeable future( see also, Norris 2010). Moreover, based on our reading of the empirical studies of e‐democracy, we strongly suspect that the state of grassroots e‐democracy in the US is more similar to than it is different from the state of local e‐democracy elsewhere in the world. Clearly, however, further study will be needed to support or reject these suspicions.
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank UMBC’ s Research Venture Fund and the College of Public Policy research grant at UTSA that enabled us to conduct the survey that produced the data on which this paper is based.
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