Many political actors have experimented with ‘crowdsourcing’, or in other words, the testing and gathering of policy ideas online. Public authorities have conducted online consultations on such matters as road building. Candidates in elections have used the internet to crowdsource ideas for manifestos. The Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake has even crowdsourced ideas for a European […]
Christopher Lord is Professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies, at the University of Oslo. He has written several books and articles on democracy, legitimacy and the European Union.