The Birth of the CrowdLaw Movement: Tech-Based Citizen Participation, Legitimacy and the Quality of Lawmaking
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Victòria Alsina
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José Luis Martí
Abstract
One of the most urgent debates of our time is about the exact role that new technologies can and should play in our societies and particularly in our public decision-making processes. This paper is a first attempt to introduce the idea of CrowdLaw, defined as online public participation leveraging new technologies to tap into diverse sources of information, judgments and expertise at each stage of the law and policymaking cycle to improve the quality as well as the legitimacy of the resulting laws and policies. First, we explain why CrowdLaw differs from many previous forms of political participation. Second,we reproduce and explain the CrowdLaw Manifesto that the rising CrowdLaw community has elaborated to foster such approaches around the world. Lastly, we introduce some preliminary considerations on the notions of justice, legitimacy and quality of lawmaking and public decision-making, which are central to the idea of CrowdLaw.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Contents
- Editorial
- Focus: Governing Immigration
- Cooperatives Instead of Migration Partnerships
- Two Ethical Hurdles Facing the Osterloh-Frey Proposal
- Money, Refuge, and Justice
- Migration, Entry Fees, and Stakeholdership
- Can an Entrance Fee Solve the Migration Problem? Probably Not
- Towards a Rational Migration Policy
- A Utilitarian Approach for the Governance of Humanitarian Migration
- Universal Rights Localized or Local Rights Universalized?
- A Pragmatic Approach to Migration
- General Part
- The Birth of the CrowdLaw Movement: Tech-Based Citizen Participation, Legitimacy and the Quality of Lawmaking
- Crowdlaw: Collective Intelligence and Lawmaking
- Why We Should Talk about German ‘Orientierungskultur’ rather than ‘Leitkultur’
- Discussion
- Just Instruments for Adaptation Finance
- Moral Objectivity and Property: The Justice of Liberal Socialism
