Stuart W Shulman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5096058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart W Shulman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart W |
| FAMILY NAME | Shulman |
| SIGNATURE | SHULMAN S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Does the Musk Twitter Takeover Matter? Political Influencers, Their Arguments, and the Quality of Information They Share
In October 2022, Elon Musk took over Twitter. Although conservatives cheered the takeover, progressives decried it as dangerous for democracy. Despite scholarly interest in Twitter, little is known about the impact of 'old' Twitter's policies on the information environment, making it difficult to speculate about Musk's effects. The authors begin to address this gap through an analysis of 245,020 tweets collected before and after Twitter suspended…
Government 2.0
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) has been changing not only the daily lives of people but also the interactions between governments and citizens. The digital government or electronic government (e-government) has started as a new form of public organization that supports and redefines the existing and new information, communication and transaction-related interactions with stakeholders (e.g., citizens and busines…
The Case Against Mass E‐mails
Large‐scale e‐mail campaigns are a staple in the modern environmental movement. Interest groups increasingly use online mobilizations as a way to raise awareness, money, and membership. There are legitimate political, economic, and organizational reasons for doing so, but these gains may come at the expense of a more substantial and efficacious role for citizens who wish to use e‐mail to engage in public participation. This paper situates a close…
Recognizing Citations in Public Comments
Notice and comment rulemaking is central to how U.S. federal agencies craft new regulation. E-rulemaking, the process of soliciting and considering public comments that are submitted electronically, poses a challenge for agencies. The large volume of comments received makes it difficult to distill and address the most substantive concerns of the public. This work attempts to alleviate this burden by applying existing machine learning techniques t…
Democracy and E-Rulemaking
Deliberative democratic theorists and public participation scholars have become increasingly interested in institutionalized forms of citizen discourse with the state, including those facilitated by information technology. However, there have been very few empirical studies of the claims that the Internet will make public participation more inclusive and deliberative. We report the results of an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in…
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet
We hypothesize that recent uses of the Internet as a public-participation mechanism in the United States fail to overcome the adversarial culture that characterizes the American regulatory process. Although the Internet has the potential to facilitate deliberative processes that could result in more widespread public involvement, greater transparency in government processes, and a more satisfied citizenry, we argue that efforts to implement Inter…
Digital Citizenship
This study presents results from a 2002 Midwest urban random sample survey ( N = 167 adults). It is proposed that attitudes toward technology have a direct impact on digital citizenry and are colored by racial and educational differences. A path model showed several key results. Desire for computer skills increased among respondents with lower levels of educational attainment. Respondents with higher levels of education were more likely to use co…
Electronic Rulemaking
This article proposes a social science research agenda that will reflect on and inform the development of new information technology-based approaches to the electronic collection, distribution, synthesis, and analysis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process. It identifies one critical area of an ongoing governance transformation: the use of web-based programs to collect public commentary on proposed agency rules. In the traditio…
An experiment in digital government at the United States National Organic Program
The Internet and Environmental Decision Making
The Business of Soil Fertility
During the Progressive era, an urban-agrarian wing of the conservation movement made soil fertility a highly salient issue in the press. This article examines the extent and causes of a convergence of urban-agrarian concern between 1907 and 1916, which was one of the first sustainable agriculture policy networks in United States history. Businessmen and journalists helped put soil fertility on the national policy agenda. Existing institutions, su…
Introduction to the special issue on the politics and policies of sustainable agriculture
Government 2.0
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) has been changing not only the daily lives of people but also the interactions between governments and citizens. The digital government or electronic government (e-government) has started as a new form of public organization that supports and redefines the existing and new information, communication and transaction-related interactions with stakeholders (e.g., citizens and busines…
Does the Musk Twitter Takeover Matter? Political Influencers, Their Arguments, and the Quality of Information They Share
In October 2022, Elon Musk took over Twitter. Although conservatives cheered the takeover, progressives decried it as dangerous for democracy. Despite scholarly interest in Twitter, little is known about the impact of 'old' Twitter's policies on the information environment, making it difficult to speculate about Musk's effects. The authors begin to address this gap through an analysis of 245,020 tweets collected before and after Twitter suspended…
Digital Citizenship
This study presents results from a 2002 Midwest urban random sample survey ( N = 167 adults). It is proposed that attitudes toward technology have a direct impact on digital citizenry and are colored by racial and educational differences. A path model showed several key results. Desire for computer skills increased among respondents with lower levels of educational attainment. Respondents with higher levels of education were more likely to use co…
Electronic Rulemaking
This article proposes a social science research agenda that will reflect on and inform the development of new information technology-based approaches to the electronic collection, distribution, synthesis, and analysis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process. It identifies one critical area of an ongoing governance transformation: the use of web-based programs to collect public commentary on proposed agency rules. In the traditio…
Democracy and E-Rulemaking
Deliberative democratic theorists and public participation scholars have become increasingly interested in institutionalized forms of citizen discourse with the state, including those facilitated by information technology. However, there have been very few empirical studies of the claims that the Internet will make public participation more inclusive and deliberative. We report the results of an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in…
An experiment in digital government at the United States National Organic Program
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet
We hypothesize that recent uses of the Internet as a public-participation mechanism in the United States fail to overcome the adversarial culture that characterizes the American regulatory process. Although the Internet has the potential to facilitate deliberative processes that could result in more widespread public involvement, greater transparency in government processes, and a more satisfied citizenry, we argue that efforts to implement Inter…
Introduction to the special issue on the politics and policies of sustainable agriculture
The Business of Soil Fertility
During the Progressive era, an urban-agrarian wing of the conservation movement made soil fertility a highly salient issue in the press. This article examines the extent and causes of a convergence of urban-agrarian concern between 1907 and 1916, which was one of the first sustainable agriculture policy networks in United States history. Businessmen and journalists helped put soil fertility on the national policy agenda. Existing institutions, su…
The Internet and Environmental Decision Making
Electronic Rulemaking
This article proposes a social science research agenda that will reflect on and inform the development of new information technology-based approaches to the electronic collection, distribution, synthesis, and analysis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process. It identifies one critical area of an ongoing governance transformation: the use of web-based programs to collect public commentary on proposed agency rules. In the traditio…
An experiment in digital government at the United States National Organic Program
Digital Citizenship
This study presents results from a 2002 Midwest urban random sample survey ( N = 167 adults). It is proposed that attitudes toward technology have a direct impact on digital citizenry and are colored by racial and educational differences. A path model showed several key results. Desire for computer skills increased among respondents with lower levels of educational attainment. Respondents with higher levels of education were more likely to use co…
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet
We hypothesize that recent uses of the Internet as a public-participation mechanism in the United States fail to overcome the adversarial culture that characterizes the American regulatory process. Although the Internet has the potential to facilitate deliberative processes that could result in more widespread public involvement, greater transparency in government processes, and a more satisfied citizenry, we argue that efforts to implement Inter…
Democracy and E-Rulemaking
Deliberative democratic theorists and public participation scholars have become increasingly interested in institutionalized forms of citizen discourse with the state, including those facilitated by information technology. However, there have been very few empirical studies of the claims that the Internet will make public participation more inclusive and deliberative. We report the results of an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in…
Recognizing Citations in Public Comments
Notice and comment rulemaking is central to how U.S. federal agencies craft new regulation. E-rulemaking, the process of soliciting and considering public comments that are submitted electronically, poses a challenge for agencies. The large volume of comments received makes it difficult to distill and address the most substantive concerns of the public. This work attempts to alleviate this burden by applying existing machine learning techniques t…
The Case Against Mass E‐mails
Large‐scale e‐mail campaigns are a staple in the modern environmental movement. Interest groups increasingly use online mobilizations as a way to raise awareness, money, and membership. There are legitimate political, economic, and organizational reasons for doing so, but these gains may come at the expense of a more substantial and efficacious role for citizens who wish to use e‐mail to engage in public participation. This paper situates a close…
Government 2.0
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) has been changing not only the daily lives of people but also the interactions between governments and citizens. The digital government or electronic government (e-government) has started as a new form of public organization that supports and redefines the existing and new information, communication and transaction-related interactions with stakeholders (e.g., citizens and busines…
Does the Musk Twitter Takeover Matter? Political Influencers, Their Arguments, and the Quality of Information They Share
In October 2022, Elon Musk took over Twitter. Although conservatives cheered the takeover, progressives decried it as dangerous for democracy. Despite scholarly interest in Twitter, little is known about the impact of 'old' Twitter's policies on the information environment, making it difficult to speculate about Musk's effects. The authors begin to address this gap through an analysis of 245,020 tweets collected before and after Twitter suspended…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Rulemaking (6 works) · Democracy (5 works)