Website Resources - For Chapter 5

Charter 88 - http://www.charter88.org.uk/ - Charter 88 is an independent campaign organisation that has over 80,000 supporters. The organisation argues for significant increases in the opportunities for public participation in political decision making and that government should be more responsive and responsible to the people. Charter 88 also argues for increased commitment from the people in terms of playing an active part in the political and decision making processes.

Comparative Democratisation Project Stanford University http://democracy.stanford.edu/ - The is project is sponsored by the Institute for International Studies of Stanford University. The site covers a wide range of aspects of democratisation around the world including: Development of theories about democratisation and an examination of the role of specific actors in the process of democratization, such as armies, police, labor, business, and political parties. The site also offers analysis of the problems, progress, contradictions, and challenges confronting democratic development in particular countries and regions around the world.

Protest Net - http://www.protest.net/ Protest.Net is gateway site designed to provide help to activists by providing a central location for information about the times and locations of protests and meetings. This type of site provide an interesting example of global democracy at work through the network technologies of the internet.

Freedom House - http://www.freedomhouse.org/ - the Freedom House, is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that produces significant amounts of analysis and data about the state, extent and nature of democracy and freedom around the world. The Freedom House Survey offers a regular comparative assessment of democracy throughout the world. This organisation is a pro-active promoter of democracy and works to advance its conception of democratic politics through an array of international programs and publications.

Minnesota E-Democracy - http://www.e-democracy.org - Minnesota E-Democracy is a non-profit, non-partisan, host for online political and community discussions. In many ways this project offers another vision of how edemocracy might work in the future and how networked communities might exploit new communications technologies for political ends.