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Designing e-Sustainable Parliaments

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Parliaments are seeking legitimacy as responsive and sustainable institutions engaging citizens in the policy process by embracing Internet technologies. Social sustainability relies on participation of citizens and knowledge emerging through interaction. Parliaments as information and knowledge based organizations select different choices for sustainability structuring the e-parliament along a continuum between improving processes and engaging citizens from information provision to active citizenship.

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Romanelli, M. (2016). Designing e-Sustainable Parliaments. In: Torre, T., Braccini, A., Spinelli, R. (eds) Empowering Organizations. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23784-8_3

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