Paul Ferber

Biographic Data

ID4451658
NAMEPaul Ferber
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEFerber
SIGNATUREFERBER P
AFFILIATIONSRochester Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX2

  • Demographics and Political Characteristics Affecting State Legislature Websites

    Paul Ferber, Franz Foltz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Marketing2008Cited by: 1References: 1

    The quality of state legislature Websites has been found to vary considerably across the 50 states. This study found Website quality to be principally related to demographic variables of household Internet access, percent below poverty, per capita income, high school education or higher, and voting in the 2000 election. Political variables such as legislative staff per capita, levels of party competition, and legislative professionalism were less…

  • Cyberdemocracy and Online Politics

    Open AccessPaul Ferber, Franz Foltz et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2007

    Building on McMillan's two-way model of interactivity, this study presents a three-way model of interactive communication, which is used to assess political Web sites' progress toward the ideals of cyberdemocracy and the fostering of public deliberation. Results of a 3-year study of state legislature Web sites, an analysis of the community networks, and a review of purely political sites such as MoveOn.org, RNC.org, and DNC.org are reported. Litt…

  • Community Networks and Public Participation

    Open AccessPaul Ferber, Franz Foltz et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2006

    Forums of public discussion on Internet Web sites have been promoted by some as having the potential to improve democracy through large increases in civic engagement. Such claims are scoffed at by others. To date, such forums tend to be found more on community networks and commercial Web sites than on sites owned by governments. We thus turn to an examination of forums hosted by a private New Jersey organization, to seek to understand the types a…

  • The Internet and Public Participation

    Open AccessPaul Ferber, Franz Foltz et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2005

    The interactive nature of the Internet is seen by some as a technological innovation that might boost participation in politics and civic affairs. That potential, however, is clouded by imprecise definitions of interactivity found among scholars and practitioners alike. Evaluation of state legislature Web sites found them to not be very interactive under most definitions of the term. Chief technology officers of the legislatures appear to differ …

  • Interactivity Versus Interaction

    Open AccessPaul Ferber, Franz Foltz et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2005

    The Internet, not unlike previous communication technologies, has been predicted to dramatically change the nature of democracy. The interactive nature of Web sites, in particular, is seen as the basis for a new cyberdemocracy. Although the definition of interactivity is less than precise, an evaluation of state legislature Web sites finds them lacking many features that could be considered interactive. Furthermore, the degree of a site’s interac…

  • The Politics of State Legislature Web Sites

    Open AccessPaul Ferber, Franz Foltz et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2003

    Web sites of the 50 state legislatures are evaluated on five criteria: content, usability, interactivity, transparency, and audience. An overall quality score for each site was computed. The evaluation revealed a wide range of quality in the sites, including that of features or aspects that could possibly foster citizen participation. The higher rated sites help define “best practices” in this regard and provide suggestions as to how other states…

  • Partisans, Proximates, and Poker Players

    Paul H Ferber, Paul Ferber et al.ARTICLEPolity2000Cited by: 3

    This study examined interpersonal communication patterns among 70 of 149 members in the New York State Assembly. The average member spoke frequently with about 22% of his or her colleagues, less frequently to another 44%, and virtually never to the remaining third of the membership. Shared membership in political party had the strongest relationship to communication patterns (which colleagues a member communicated with) followed by regional deleg…

  • Patterns of Issue Orientations

    Open AccessKenneth F Billingsley, Paul H Ferber et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1981

    JIy ESPITE recent findings of increased attitudinal consistency, there does not appear to be any correspondingly large change in levels of political conceptualization among the American electorate. Gains in attitudinal consistency, even if as dramatic as some authors claim, do not necessarily reflect higher levels of ideological sophistication. On the contrary, the evidence suggests that the changes of the past few years stem primarily from the g…

  • Patterns of Issue Orientations

    Kenneth F Billingsley, Paul H Ferber et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1981Cited by: 1

  • Measuring Legislator-Constituency Congruence

    William C Adams, Paul H Ferber et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1980Cited by: 4