Structuring Dialogue between the People and Their Representatives

fonte:http://www.springerlink.com/content/lyqr82w9a0g6vlbu/fulltext.pdf
acesso:23-10-2009

Conversations between citizens and their representatives may take a
number of forms. In this paper, we consider one of these ? letters between citizens
and representatives ? and explore the application of a well-known model
of dialogue types to these. We provide a method to give these types a precise
characterization in terms of the initial beliefs and desires of the participants, and
then explore one type, persuasion dialogues. This work commences the formal
modeling of citizen-representative interactions necessary for a fully electronic
democracy.