Matthew Hindman

Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government, the collected volume edited by David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schöenberger , is now out from MIT Press.  

The volume includes my chapter "'Open Source Politics' Reconsidered: Emerging Patterns in Online Political Participation." My previous discussion of the chapter can be found here ,  and while you can find a preprint version of my chapter here .

Better yet,  click here to buy the book from Amazon.

 The book manuscript is finally off to reviewers.  I'm glad to have the project off of my desk, and onto the desks of others.  

But it also means that I have a relatively polished book manuscript ready for general perusal.  Click here if you would like to read it. (Warning--the link is to a 650 KB .pdf file.) I would love to hear comments and criticisms.  

I'm also offering a $.10 bounty for every typo found.  First come, first served.

APSA on the air

There is a strange omission in these debates.  In calling for political science to have a "stronger public presence" (in Putnam's words), scholars have ignored the historical period when the public presence of political science was at its zenith.

Much has been written about the digital divide in recent years. Yet while scholars have closely examined citizen Internet use, the factors that inspire candidates to campaign online have received little notice.  No one can visit campaign Websites if candidates don't put them online in the first place.  

The article (coauthored with Paul Herrnson and Atiya Stokes-Brown) uses a large, national survey of state legislative candidates in an attempt to figure out what, exactly, drives office seekers to invest in email and the Web.  While constituency characteristics matter, strategic considerations and candidate background play a larger and more consistent role. 

Click here for a .pdf file of the paper, which appeared in Political Research Quarterly. Full citation and abstract below the fold.