Context clues for the stall of the Citizens Initiative: lessons for opening up e-participation development practice
We analyze the development of an e-participation tool for EU-wide agenda-setting. We focus on internal institutional variables in explaining project hardships at the start. The failures were largely caused by dissonant stakeholder perceptions of the tool. The study showcases the analytical value of genre theory for project design in e-participation.
e-participation genre theory e-democracy european citizens' initiative (eci) eu policy-making e-petition policy analysis