Open AccessDeliberative democracy and the internet: Could online deliberative democracy replace classical democracy
Author(s) -
Željko Mančić
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1202168m
Subject(s) - deliberative democracy , democracy , the internet , e democracy , politics , simplicity , political science , direct democracy , representative democracy , deliberation , law and economics , sociology , epistemology , computer science , law , world wide web , philosophy
This text deals with one of the attempts to make the idea of deliberative democracy more acceptable by conducting it through the Internet. Citing the simplicity of access and use of the Internet, many authors believe that it is possible to join deliberative democracy with direct democracy, and thus reach the best possible system of political decision making. It will be shown, however, that although this idea has many advantages over classical theories of deliberative democracy, it raises more issues than it solves. Despite this, the idea of online deliberative democracy should not be neglected, but rather joined with existing procedures of political decision making, significantly improving these procedures