超越抑或拯救代议民主:网络民主价值辨析与合理定位

Going beyond or Saving Representative Democracy? A Value Analysis and Rational Positioning of Cyber-democracy

网络民主是媒介与民主关系的新形式,它具有极强的包容性,既可以削弱代议民主的某些功能,又在某些方面改善了代议民主。网络民主和代议民主之间不是相互取代的关系,而是可以相互补充、相互融合。目前网络民主掀起的民主改革浪潮,与其说是对代议民主的否定,不如说是对代议民主的修正;与其说是颠覆代议民主,不如说是追求民主平衡的努力。

Cyber democracy is a new form of relationship between media and democracy,which is highly inclusive.It can weaken as well as improve representative democracy.The relationship between cyber democracy and representative democracy is not an either-or one but that of mutually supplementary.By analyzing the current wave of reforms triggered by the eyber-democracy,it is reasonable to argue that cyberdemocracy is more on amending rather than rejecting representative democracy,more on seeking the balance of democracy rather than subverting it.