数字技术赋能基层民主制度:优势、挑战与前景

Digital Technology Empowers Grassroots Democracy:Advantages,Challenges and Prospects

数字技术赋能基层民主是理解技术与政治关系的重要维度。以大数据和算法技术为核心的数字技术,在制度规范生成与传播、制度合理性与有效性、制度自我修复与演化和制度运行的技术逻辑等方面推动民主制度的发展。以此为出发点,数字技术赋能下基层民主制度进一步彰显民主与集中相统一的实践准则、增强制度的问题解决能力、提升制度的权威性与认受性、激活制度的政治社会化功用。与此同时,也应注意到因数字技术的不确定性给基层民主制度运行带来的有关政治平等、制度公正、政治参与、制度目标等方面的挑战和难题。为此,有必要在观念方面坚持基层民主制度政治价值的主导地位、在技术方面将基层民主制度下的共识规范嵌入数字技术、在制度方面形成组织协同下的问题解决机制。数字时代仍应聚焦于制度的完善与发展,使技术始终服务于人的需要。

Empowering grassroots democracy with digital technology is an important dimension for understanding the relationship between technology and politics.Digital technology with the core of big data and algorithm technology promotes the development of democratic institutions in terms of the generation and dissemination of institutional norms,institutional rationality and effectiveness,institutional self-healing and evolution,and the technical logic of institutional operation.Regarding this as the starting point,grassroots democracy empowered by digital technology further highlights the practical criteria of the unity of democracy and concentration,enhances the institution's ability to solve the problems,improves the authority and acceptance of the institution,and activates the political socialization function of the institution.At the same time,we should also pay attention to the challenges and problems related to political equality,institutional justice,political participation,and institutional goals that arise from the uncertainty of digital technology in the operation of grassroots democracy.Therefore,it is necessary to adhere to the dominant position of the political value of grassroots democracy in terms of concepts,embed consensus norms under grassroots democracy into digital technology in terms of technology,and form problem solving mechanisms under organizational coordination in terms of institutions.The digital age should still focus on the improvement and development of institutions,so that technologywill always servepeople's needs.