Comments on: E-Petitions or How participatory should democracy be? http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/02/21/e-petitions-or-how-participatory-should-democracy-be/ is a Research Assistant and a DPhil Student Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Heather Hopkins http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/02/21/e-petitions-or-how-participatory-should-democracy-be/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Heather Hopkins Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:17:12 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/?p=25#comment-51 Thanks for the post (and the link). I agree - would be great to be able to see areas where consumers could gather and discuss the issues online. Perhaps though, it is not the government that should host these? I have no data to back this up, but my sense if that when government gets involved, things can go terribly wrong! :) Cheers, Heather Thanks for the post (and the link). I agree – would be great to be able to see areas where consumers could gather and discuss the issues online. Perhaps though, it is not the government that should host these? I have no data to back this up, but my sense if that when government gets involved, things can go terribly wrong! :)

Cheers, Heather

]]> By: Heather Yaxley http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/02/21/e-petitions-or-how-participatory-should-democracy-be/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Heather Yaxley Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:15:22 +0000 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/?p=25#comment-50 Thank you for this thoughtful post - I had blogged about the same topic myself earlier today, but felt less optimistic about “people power” democracy than this post. Good to read your positive take. Thank you for this thoughtful post – I had blogged about the same topic myself earlier today, but felt less optimistic about “people power” democracy than this post. Good to read your positive take.

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