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This book is about the possibilities that cyberdemocracy can offer in expanding both the political landscape and suffrage to citizens. Towards the end of this chapter, there is a section titled ‘Making a Path for Cyberdemocracy’, hence adding ‘E’ to the title. But before we get there, it is necessary to briefly dip into history, particularly of the emergence of a form of democracy in Ancient Athens before examining modern democracy and some of the issues therein.
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Chomsky (1989, 2002) asks ‘why are we fixated on representative systems? Because this is a clever way for capitalists to circumvent substantive democracy replacing it with an illusory democratic system that they can manipulate while appeasing the masses, lending the system a semblance of legitimacy’ (Asimakopoulos, 2016, p. 18).
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Karem, H. (2023). Democracy with an ‘E’. In: Cyberdemocracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27544-9_2
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