Deliberative democracy and the internet: Could online deliberative democracy replace classical democracy
In: Filozofija i društvo, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 168-186
ISSN: 2334-8577
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.