Transforming Not Digitizing. Germany’s Path to Digital Democracy

New Discussion Paper by Laura-Kristine Krause

Summary

Laura-Kristine Krause lays out four paths towards implementing and seizing the opportunities of digital democracy in Germany.

In this Discussion Paper Laura-Kristine Krause addresses the source of this paradox and offers a concept of digital democracy as a combination of the dimensions information, participation and transformation.

In urging to see digitalisation as a process reaching beyond the digitalisation of former analogue processes, it lays out four paths towards implementing and seising the opportunities of digital democracy in Germany.

Author

Laura Krause led the Future of Democracy program area at Das Progressive Zentrum from 2017 to 2018. Previously, she was a senior associate at the strategy consulting firm Bernstein Public Policy and a policy fellow associated with the Progressive Center
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