Political parties, Part 1

In my third and last blaper™ I will write about the essay 'The Challenge of E-democracy for political parties' (available online as a pdf), by Grant Kippen and Gordon Jenkins.

Let's start with some interesting tidbits of info from 'who is who' analysis - a little hermeneutics never hurt anyoine :)

Mr. Kippen, unlike most of the contributors to Shane's 'Democracy Online' we are reading, is not an academic. He seems to be involved with the world of business (The Hillbrooke Group), political think tanks and NGOs (National Democratic Institute for International Affairs) and politics (being an organizer of an '93 electronic campaign fofor the Liberal Party of Canada).

Gordon Jenkins also doesn't seem like an academic. One of the editors of the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, he is involved with the International Institute of Business Technologies.

So we face an interesting question: how, if at all, will backgrounds of those authors influence the article? Stay tuned for the answer.