On Decision, Deliberation and Information in Electronic Democracy

Research Tasks from a Decision Scientific Standpoint

Abstract

Electronic democracy is an important theme which social informatics must research next to electronic capitalism. Recently, the special numbers are organized in IEEE and IPSA and some books are published within and outside the country. The literatures are different each other about basic disciplines and analytical perspectives, but are common to construct a future research framework and to address research tasks in it. The purpose of this paper is, along with this line, to address research tasks on decision, deliberation and information in electronic democracy from a decision scientific standpoint.