Contribution to Book
Participatory Institutions, Digital Technologies, and Democratic Crises
Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age: Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes
(2024)
Abstract
Revolutionizing democracy by including citizens in decision-making processes and making government more transparent and accessible in new ways was one of the great hopes of the 1990s. Thirty years later, the focus in much of the Americas and Europe is concentrated on impeding democratic backsliding. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of satisfaction with democracy in 2019 reached its lowest point ever across the globe, and the Latin American region scored worst (Segovia, Pontarollo, and Orellana 2021, 418).
Keywords
- Technological innovations,
- Economic aspects,
- Brazil,
- Capitalism,
- Information technology,
- Developing countries
Disciplines
Publication Date
2024
Editor
Aaron Schneider
Publisher
State University of New York Press
ISBN
9781438498850
DOI
10.2307/jj.18253702.12
Citation Information
Benjamin Goldfrank and Yanina Welp. "Participatory Institutions, Digital Technologies, and Democratic Crises" AlbanyPopular Sovereignty in a Digital Age: Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes (2024) p. 137 - 154 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/benjamin_goldfrank/49/