Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies

by Andrew Chadwick

Book Overview

In the developed world, there is no longer an issue of whether the Internet affects politics--but rather how, why, and with what consequences. With the Internet now spreading at a breathtaking rate in the developing world, the new medium is fraught with tensions, paradoxes, and contradictions. How do we make sense of these? In this major new work, Andrew Chadwick addresses such concerns, providing the first comprehensive overview of Internet politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195177738
• ISBN13: 9780195177732
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This book saved my life (or, at least, my thesis)...

For my undergraduate political science thesis, I had found a slew of books on the Internet and politics. But quite frankly, none of them compared in scope and depth to Chadwick's excellent volume; it was only until I found his book that I actually "got" the relationship between the Internet and democratic institutional design. It is at once academically rigorous and easy to understand, comprehensive in research and not overly bogged down in the minutiae. Highly recommended for students, technologists, and policymakers.