Development of E-democracy in the Czech Republic

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Development of E-democracy in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Development of E-democracy in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2012

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Politické vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

1338-5623

Svazek periodika

XV

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

108-117

Kód UT WoS článku

000446179400007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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