E-Participation in Lithuanian Representative Power

Abstract

This paper considers how e-participation can strengthen confidence in democratic institutions and playersin Lithuania, and concentrates on the overall development of electronic democracy and electronic participation(e-participation) tools used by the Lithuanian members of Parliament (MPs) and political parties. Firstly, a briefoverview of the previous studies about e-participation initiatives of the politicians' worldwide is provided. Secondly,follows the description of the methodology. Thirdly, the authors discuss democracy development trendsin the information society and then present main findings of the survey completed in August 2007 – January2009 on the websites of the Lithuanian MPs and political parties. Finally, the conclusions of Lithuanian casestudy and the recommendations to Lithuanian representative power are given.