1. View of Electronic Participation and its Application in the Present Conditions of Democracy
- Author
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Jana Gasperová, Peter Poliak, and Vojtech Kollár
- Subjects
e-participation ,Electronic participation ,HF5001-6182 ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,information a communication technologies and e-government ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,Space (commercial competition) ,Public administration ,Public relations ,050905 science studies ,Democracy ,Active participation ,e-democracy ,Economics ,Business ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,business ,E-democracy ,Developed country ,media_common - Abstract
Recently we have witnessed declining confidence of citizens in public authorities in developed countries. The paper provides an insight into the tools of e-democracy as a critical component of a developed democracy. We claim that one of the possible reasons for the loss of confidence of the citizens is that the traditional mechanisms of democracy do not often comply with the decision of those who govern. Only the citizens who show interest by watching and following current events, and who know where to look for this information, get to the final output in the form of regulations, decrees, laws, etc. Publication of the outcomes of public administration and governance on their web sites enables to keep track of the news and at the same time, creates a space for the development of the active participation of citizens in the management of public affairs with a feedback.
- Published
- 2016