Open AccessGovernance and Democratic Procedures in the Information Society Era
Author(s) -
Athanasios I. Bozinis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1558-6987
pISSN - 1549-3652
DOI - 10.3844/jssp.2007.123.126
Subject(s) - democracy , information and communications technology , democratic governance , politics , e democracy , corporate governance , control (management) , public administration , democratic system , political science , sociology , political economy , economics , law , management
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in todays democratic societies has always two sides: the well-intended, which is the expansion of the democratic participation, and the bad-intended, the one that causes concentration. This research analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the use of e-democracy and claims that the integration of electronic democracy within a country will be based on the effective use of the political-democratic institutions, on the legitimate frame that will control the use of electronic democracy, and on the technological background that describes the country