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		<title>The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation</title>
		<link>https://democracyspot.net/2023/09/01/the-silenced-text-field-experiments-on-gendered-experiences-of-political-participation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really nice new study published in the American Political Science Review, by Alan N.&#160;Yan and Rachel Bernhard: Who gets to &#8220;speak up&#8221; in politics? Whose voices are silenced? We conducted two field experiments to understand how harassment shapes the everyday &#8230; <a href="https://democracyspot.net/2023/09/01/the-silenced-text-field-experiments-on-gendered-experiences-of-political-participation/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a> <a href="https://democracyspot.net/2023/09/01/the-silenced-text-field-experiments-on-gendered-experiences-of-political-participation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The haves and the have-nots: who benefits from civic tech?</title>
		<link>https://democracyspot.net/2022/10/20/the-haves-and-the-have-nots-who-benefits-from-civic-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Civic tech&#8221; broadly refers to the use of digital technologies to support a range of citizen engagement processes.&#160;From allowing individuals to report problems to local government to enabling the crowdsourcing of national legislation, civic tech aims to promote better policies &#8230; <a href="https://democracyspot.net/2022/10/20/the-haves-and-the-have-nots-who-benefits-from-civic-tech/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a> <a href="https://democracyspot.net/2022/10/20/the-haves-and-the-have-nots-who-benefits-from-civic-tech/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Papers Published: FixMyStreet and the World’s Largest Participatory Budgeting</title>
		<link>https://democracyspot.net/2017/03/05/new-papers-published-fixmystreet-and-the-worlds-largest-participatory-budgeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two new published papers that my colleagues Jon Mellon, Fredrik Sjoberg and myself have been working on. The first, The Effect of Bureaucratic Responsiveness on Citizen Participation, published in Public Administration Review, is &#8211; to our knowledge &#8211; &#8230; <a href="https://democracyspot.net/2017/03/05/new-papers-published-fixmystreet-and-the-worlds-largest-participatory-budgeting/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>Three New Papers (and a presentation) on Civic Tech</title>
		<link>http://democracyspot.net/2015/06/08/three-new-papers-on-civic-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 01:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been slow lately, but as I mentioned before, it is for a good cause. With some great colleagues I&#8217;ve been working on a series of papers (and a book) on civic technology. The first three of these &#8230; <a href="http://democracyspot.net/2015/06/08/three-new-papers-on-civic-tech/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=democracyspot.net&#38;blog=39878169&#38;post=1096&#38;subd=democracyspotdotnet&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1">
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		<title>DemocracySpot’s Most Read Posts in 2014</title>
		<link>http://democracyspot.net/2015/01/02/democracyspots-most-read-posts-in-2014/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I should have posted this on the 31st, but better late than never) Below are some of the most read posts in 2014. While I&#8217;m at it, I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to explain the reduced number of posts in the &#8230; <a href="http://democracyspot.net/2015/01/02/democracyspots-most-read-posts-in-2014/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=democracyspot.net&#38;blog=39878169&#38;post=1079&#38;subd=democracyspotdotnet&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1">
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		<title>Who Participates in Africa? Dispelling the Myth</title>
		<link>http://democracyspot.net/2014/03/23/who-participates-in-africa-dispelling-the-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever discussing participation in Africa (as well as in other developing contexts) the issue of &#8220;who participates&#8221; often emerges. A constant in these conversations is an assumption that participation in the continent is strongly driven by material and immaterial resources &#8230; <a href="http://democracyspot.net/2014/03/23/who-participates-in-africa-dispelling-the-myth/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=democracyspot.net&#38;blog=39878169&#38;post=945&#38;subd=democracyspotdotnet&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1">
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		<title>Italian Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of the Internet on Political Participation</title>
		<link>http://democracyspot.net/2013/06/04/italian-politics-2-0-the-multifaceted-effect-of-the-internet-on-political-participation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiago Peixoto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of&#160;political participation, using data from Italy. We exploit differences in the availability&#160;of ADSL broadband technology across municipalities, using the exogenous variation&#160;induced by the fact that the cost &#8230; <a href="http://democracyspot.net/2013/06/04/italian-politics-2-0-the-multifaceted-effect-of-the-internet-on-political-participation/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyspot.net&#38;blog=39878169&#38;post=731&#38;subd=democracyspotdotnet&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1">
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