论参与制民主实现过程中现代传媒的作用

On the Function of the Modern Media in the Process of Realizing the Participation Democracy

代议制理论及其实践为资产阶级国家的建立和发展起到了巨大的推动作用。随着资本主义社会的发展,代议制暴露出种种弊端。作为对代议制民主理论的一种批判和补充的参与制民主理论,主张所有人的最大程度的参与。当前,无论是从信息获取方面,还是从参与手段方面,高速发展的现代传媒,都使人们可以更为广泛、快捷地参与国家事务管理,从而极大地促进了参与制民主的实践。

The theory and practice of representative have played a great role in promoting bourgeois establishment and development. Along with the development of capitalist society, representative exposed drawbacks. As a criticism and supplementation of representative, participatory democracy holds that the greatest degree of participation. At present, either from the access to information, or the means of participation, the high-speed development of the modern media offers people more extensive and efficient participation in the management of state affairs, thus contributing substantially to participate in the practice of democracy.