Crowdsourced Politics

Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Public Administration at the Australian National University. Until mid-2020 she was Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Sydney. She has long-term research interests in political engagement, including a significant project on how young people use social media for civic engagement in Australia, the UK, and the USA.Darren Halpin is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. He has published widely on the topics of interest groups and organized interests, including recent articles in Governance, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of European Public Policy and Public Administration.Michael Vaughan is a post-doctoral researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Freie University Berlin, on a project on Digitalisation and the Transnational Public Sphere.

• Chapter 1: Why do online crowds matter for contemporary citizen politics?.- Chapter 2: Who signs and shares petitions and donates money online?.- Chapter 3: How do political organisations use online petitioning and crowdfunding?.- Chapter 4: What kinds of issues do citizens successfully raise via online petitions?.- Chapter 5: Why do personal narratives and stories matter for online political engagement?.- Chapter 6: Does online citizen engagement matter for reinvigorating contemporary politics?