Electronic Participation [electronic resource] : 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings / edited by Efthimios Tambouris, Panos Panagiotopoulos, Øystein Sæbø, Maria A. Wimmer, Theresa A. Pardo, Yannis Charalabidis, Delfina Sá Soares, Tomasz Janowski.

Theoretical foundations -- Critical reflections -- Implementations -- Policy formulation and modeling. .

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2016, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in September 5-8, 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers reflect completed multi-disciplinary research ranging from policy analysis and conceptual modeling to programming and visualization of simulation models. They are organized in four topical threads: theoretical foundations; critical reflections; implementations; policy formulation and modeling. .