View of Electronic Participation and its Application in the Present Conditions of Democracy

Kollár Vojtech (), Gasperová Jana () and Poliak Peter ()
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Kollár Vojtech: School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava, Furdekova 16, 851 04 Bratislava
Gasperová Jana: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management, Odbojárov 10, 831 04 Bratislava
Poliak Peter: Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Arts, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica

Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia, 2016, vol. 9, issue 33, 58-64

Abstract: Recently we have witnessed declining confidence of citizens in public authorities in developed countries. The paper provides an insight into the tools of e-democracy as a critical component of a developed democracy. We claim that one of the possible reasons for the loss of confidence of the citizens is that the traditional mechanisms of democracy do not often comply with the decision of those who govern. Only the citizens who show interest by watching and following current events, and who know where to look for this information, get to the final output in the form of regulations, decrees, laws, etc. Publication of the outcomes of public administration and governance on their web sites enables to keep track of the news and at the same time, creates a space for the development of the active participation of citizens in the management of public affairs with a feedback.

Keywords: E-participation; e-democracy; information a communication technologies and e-government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/stcb-2016-0006

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