TY - JOUR AU - Böhle, Knud AU - Riehm, Ulrich PY - 2013/06/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - E-petition systems and political participation: About institutional challenges and democratic opportunities JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 18 IS - 7 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v18i7.4220 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4220 SP - AB - The implementation of e-petition systems holds the promise to increase the participative and deliberative potential of petitions. The most ambitious e-petition systems allow for electronic submission, make publicly available the petition text, related documents and the final decision, allow supporting a petition by electronically co-signing it, and provide electronic discussion forums. Based on a comprehensive survey (2010/2011) of parliamentary petition bodies at the national level covering the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and Switzerland, the present state of public e-petitioning in the EU is presented, and the relevance of e-petition systems as a means of political participation is discussed. ER -