E-Democracy's activities have inspired a number of important research activities. We work closely with academics and are open to specific collaborative proposals.

A number of research articles are available:

• NEW - Minnesota E-Democracy Forum Participant Survey Report (PDF) - Danish Ph.D candidate Jakob Linaa Jensen spent six months in Minnesota and surveyed a representative sample of our forum participants. The survey questions and background note from Steven Clift, E-Democracy Chair is also available. Released, August 2004
• A History of Minnesota E-Democracy 1994, by G Scott Aikens (a co-founder of Minnesota E-Democracy), 1996 
• American Democracy and Computer-Mediated Communication: A Case Study in Minnesota, a Ph.D by G Scott Aikens in 1997
• Presentations and articles from Steven Clift, Minnesota E-Democracy founder and Board Chair.  Including A Wired Agora: Minneapolis, Citizen Participation, the Internet and Squirrels (1999), section 7 of the E-Democracy E-Book (2000),and Building Citizen-based Electronic Democracy Efforts (1996).
• Growing an Online Political Community in Minnesota, 

by Mick Souder, co-founder and Vice Chair of E-Democracy, 1997
• Extending the Public Sphere through Cyberspace: The Case of Minnesota E-Democracy by Lincoln Dahlberg, 2001
• Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in an Online Public Sphere: the case of MN E-Democracy (Word), a Masters Thesis by Kimberly B. Kirn, 2001- Provided by E-Democracy with the permission of the author.
• Civic Engagement in the Cyberspace Era: A Study of a Local Cybergroup (PDF), A Ph.D by Gay Henry Lyons, 2002 - This is NOT focused on Minnesota E-Democracy specifically, but it does explore a similar forum like our own in Knoxville, Tennesse.
• Other search tricks:
• PDF files via Google that mention "Minnesota E-Democracy"
• Word Doc files via Google that mention "Minnesota E-Democracy"

Finally, an article by Digital 4Sight puts the start of E-Democracy on the same chart as Athenian Democracy, the French Revolution, and a Women's Right to Vote .... They said this, not us.

Here is THEIR diagram:

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