网络民主:公共协商与制度创新

Cyber Democracy: Public Deliberation and Institutional Innovation

网络社会的民主性基础使网络民主成为可能。网络民主是作为网民的公民借助网络的信息媒介,参与公共事件、影响政治社会决策,建构公共生活的网络集体行动创新过程。网络民主的功能取向在于公共协商与治理。网络民主的制度创新以导引公共领域的形成为核心目标;以理性的公共运用为条件;其有效性源于网络民主参与的集体行动与正式制度系统之间的互动联接。其具体路径在于:以公共性原则引导网络集体行动;促进多元理性的交往融合;促进信息共享;以地方性公共事务为当前的切入点。

The democratic bases in cyber-society make cyber-democracy possible.Cyber-democracy defines the innovative process of collective action in cyberspace where,taking advantages of the media of internet,netizens act as citizens participating in public affairs,influencing political and social decision-making in order to construct public life.The functional orientation of cyber-democracy is public deliberation and public governance that determines the principles of cyber democracy institutional innovation which are to make the formation of public sphere as core objective,to make the public use of reason as requisite,and to make the establishment of interactive links of cyber democratic collective action with social collective action and the works of formal institutional system.And cyber-democracy institutional innovation also includes details such as directing cyber democratic action with principle of publicity,promoting the communication and integration of multiple reasons,constructing the system of information sharing,taking the public deliberation of local public affairs as basic platforms of cyber-democracy.