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Dr Steve Ward

Research Fellow, January 2005 - September 2007

Prior to arriving at OII, Steve Ward (BA Warwick, MSc LSE, PhD UWE) was a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Salford. His research interests are in the area of e-democracy, particularly, political participation and campaigning online. He has received funding for three ESRC projects including: Political organisations and participation online in the UK (2000-2003) funded under the ESRC's Democracy and Participation programme; Parliamentary representation in the age of the Internet: An Anglo-Australian comparison (2003-2005), which examined MPs and Parliaments' use of new information communications technologies (funded under the e-society initiative) and Campaigning in cyberspace: 2005 general election online (2005-2006), which examined the role and use of new ICTs in the 2005 UK election campaign.

He is currently involved in an international project funded by the Australian Research Council assessing online mobilisation networks.

Research interests

e-democracy, political participation, campaigning online

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Selected publications

  • Special Issue of Parliamentary Affairs (2006) (Guest eds S.Ward, T.Vedel) The Internet and UK Politics - the first decade 59(2).
  • Special Issue of Party Politics (2003) (Guest eds: R.Gibson, A.Rommele, S.Ward) Party Politics and New ICTs 9(1).
  • Nixon, P., Gibson, R. and Ward, S. (eds) (2003) Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain (Routledge).
  • Gibson, R., Roemele, A. and Ward, S. (eds) (2003) Electronic Democracy: Mobilisation and Participation Online (Routledge).