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Comments on the recent Polish elections:

More to come.

What will iPads do to doorbelling politicians?  If there’s so much wisdom in crowds, why haven’t we better used technology to harness it?  Do Congressmen care about trending topics on Twitter when casting tough votes? Is American democracy becoming more direct as it becomes more digital? Should it?

Political actors have spent the last decade scrambling to keep ahead of their competitors in the information age, and in recent years have found the Internet makes a fantastic fundraising tool. Fueled by this remarkable income stream, it seems certain that rapid innovations will continue at the intersection of politics and technology.  Within this chaos political scientists struggle with the implication of a democracy that transforms faster than it can be studied.  We’ll have to settle for blogging….