Online participation. A three-dimensional approach to study digital political platforms (opens in new tab)

Introduction This article departs from an old but still central question in the social science literature: how extensive is participation in internet-based political processes, and how should these tools be categorised in political science? Since the early debates on “electronic democracy”, scholars have proposed typologies that map platforms onto large normative families such as deliberative, direct, liberal, or neo-republican democracy (Dahlberg, 2001; Päivärinta & Sæbø, 2006; Pelloso, 2020...