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Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Young People as Engaged Citizens: A Difficult Challenge Between Disillusionments and Hopes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Youth Political and Civic Engagement: Definitions and Forms of Participation -- 3 Factors and Processes Influencing Civic and Political Participation -- 3.1 Demographic Factors -- 3.2 Macro-level Contextual Factors -- 3.3 Proximal Social Factors -- 3.4 Psychological Factors -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Experiments on the Reaction of Citizens to New Voting Rules: A Survey -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Laboratory Experiment -- 3 In-Situ Experiments -- 4 On-Line Experiments -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Egalitarianism vs. Utilitarianism in Preferential Voting -- 1 Condorcet Theory of Democratic Vote -- 2 A Recent Development of Condorcet Theory -- 3 Egalitarian Voting in Simulations -- 3.1 Generating Synthetic Votes -- 3.2 Egalitarian Voting -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Knowledge Management for Democratic Governance of Socio-Technical Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background and Motivation -- 2.1 Self-governing Socio-Technical Systems -- 2.2 Self-governing Institutions -- 2.3 Polycentrism and the Iron Law of Oligarchy -- 3 Knowledge Management in Classical Athens -- 4 Knowledge Management Processes for SG-STS -- 4.1 Technology for Knowledge Management -- 4.2 Knowledge Aggregation -- 4.3 Knowledge Alignment -- 4.4 Knowledge Codification -- 5 Open Issues -- 5.1 Applicability and Limitations of Self-governance -- 5.2 Adapting Historic Examples to Modern Socio-Economic-Technical Contexts -- 5.3 Unanticipated Consequences-``The Media Is the Message'' -- 5.4 Economic Viability -- 5.5 Power Plays -- 6 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- The Problematic Relationship Between Trust and Democracy -- Its Crisis and Web Dangers and Promises -- 1 Premise -- 1.1 Participatory vs. Deliberative.