Development of E-democracy in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Development of E-democracy in the Czech Republic

Original language description

E-democracy (a neologism and contraction of electronic democracy) is the utilization of electronic communications technologies, such as the Internet, in enhancing democratic processes within a democratic republic or re presentative democracy. It is a political development still in its infancy, as well as the subject of much debate and activity within government, civic oriented groups and societies around the world. In the Czech Republic, this concept has been used for the first time by a relatively new political party called Věci veřejné (Public Affairs). Public Affairs is a party which was founded as early as 2001, but it was not until the year 2010 that it was elected into the Czech Parliament for the first time. The party puts stress on direct democracy an d on close cooperation with citizens. It was the first party in the Czech Republic that started using the concept of e democracy in the form of so called “internal referendums”. This contribution aims to analyse the level of success and effectiveness of this new tool of direct democracy, including its positive and negative impacts. On the Czech political scene, the concept of e-democracy is an utterly new and exceptional phenomenon. If it proves to be successful, it will be copied and used by other politic al parties. At the moment, however, experience with this concept in the conditions of the Czech political scene seem to be rather ambiguous (which, nevertheless, does not diminish the importance of internal referendums of the Public Affairs party, with the use of which, for, example, voters and supporters of this political party were approving the inclusion of the party in a government coalition with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the conservative TOP 09). For the first time in the history of the Czech Republic, e-democracy was the deciding factor deciding the fate of government and the political development of the country in the next four years.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politické vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

1338-5623

Volume of the periodical

XV

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

108-117

UT code for WoS article

000446179400007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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