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Structuring E-Participation in Policy Making through Argumentation

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2013)

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An important feature of democracies is that citizens can engage their Governments in dialogues about policies. They tend to do so in one of three ways: they may seek a justification of some policy or action; they may object to all or some aspects of a policy; or they may make policy proposals of their own.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, England

    Trevor Bench-Capon

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  1. Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain

    Hendrik Decker

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Lenka Lhotská

  3. Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, 1010, Auckland, New Zealand

    Sebastian Link

  4. Department of Information Technologies, University of Economics, Winston Churchill Square 4, 130 67, Prague 3, Czech Republic

    Josef Basl

  5. Institute of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9-11 / 188, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

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Bench-Capon, T. (2013). Structuring E-Participation in Policy Making through Argumentation. In: Decker, H., Lhotská, L., Link, S., Basl, J., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40285-2_2

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