Crowd Voting via Online Platforms as a Way of Citizens' Public Participation in the Development of Municipalities (The Active Citizen Case, Moscow) | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Tomsk State University Journal. 2021. № 470. DOI: 10.17223/15617793/470/12

Crowd Voting via Online Platforms as a Way of Citizens' Public Participation in the Development of Municipalities (The Active Citizen Case, Moscow)

Based on the theory of S. Arnstein, the paper considers crowd voting as one of the management levels available to citizens. The authors analyzed the Moscow online voting platform Active Citizen. Proceeding from the open data on the platform, the authors composed the socio-demographic profile of users, evaluated the proportion of active participation, the extent of their engagement in the voting processes depending on the themes of the problems brought to the attention of the townspeople.

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crowd voting, election technologies, E-government, public participation, welfare state

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Arkhipova Elena B.	Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin	e.b.arkhipova@urfu.ru
Starshinova Alevtina V.	Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin	a.v.starshinova@urfu.ru

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