网络的发展对民主政治的影响

网络的迅速发展对人类民主理论与实践的影响是巨大的,它在既为民主化进程提供了空前的动力与机遇的同时,又使民主的发展面临着巨大的挑战。在这个网络化的时代,整个世界都被这张"网""无情"地罩住;在网络奏响民主之歌的新时代,我们畅想着民主的新篇章。网络技术条件下直接民主的梦想能否实现?网络社会中民主能否真正成为大多数人甚至是全民的民主呢?这两个问题是我们网络化民主视野中的首要课题,它们的解决正是当前民主发展的路向。

Thinking about Democracy of the Internet Age

The quick development of the internet has affected democracy theories and practices deeply. It provides the democratization not only with unprecedented motive and opportunity to make the democray develop but also with the enormous challenge. In this internet age, whole world is "mercilessly" covered by this "net";at the new era of the democratization we think about the new cantos of the democracy. Can the dream of direct democracy come true on the background of the internet technology? Can cyber democracy be real to the most people's or even the all the people's democracy? These two problems is initial lesson when we are at sight of the cyber democracy, the solutions to it are really the way of the current democracy development.