Citation:
Nada K. Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin; Designing Balance into the Democratic Project: Contrasting Jeffersonian Democracy against Bentham’s Panopticon Centralisation in determining ICT adoption. Problems and Perspectives in Management, 1, 2007
Abstract:
Positioned in a critical realist perspective, this paper examines the impact of
systematic and institutional distortion to communication and the use of
information and communicative technology (ICT) for control over citizen
participation within the Liberal-democratic process. The paper contrasts the
Jeffersonian vision of democracy against Bentham’s Panopticon dystopia and
reviews comparative models of democratic processes. In so doing, it is argued
that the role of ICT, the role of pressure groups and concentrated media
ownership and control pose significant issues for E-democracy, in particular
that of less unfettered communication within the context of Liberal democracy.
It is concluded that a new constitutional organ is required to enhance genuine
participation within the Panopticon proclivities emergent in E-democrac
