Political Functions of E-Democracy

Electronic democracy is a new democracy form taking advanced information and communication technology, network and relevant technologies as the operation platform, direct democracy as development trend, taking citizens´ partaking in democratic operation procedures collectively, initiatively and practically such as democratic decision-making and democratic election as typical feature. Political democratization trend, abuse of traditional democracy i.e. democratic representative system, citizens´ desire of partaking in political affairs, development of social economy, advanced information and communication technologies are main reasons for development of electronic democracy. In modern political life, electronic democracy plays a role in supplying necessary information, training citizens´ participation skills, inspiring citizens´ democratic participation enthusiasm, improving citizens´ political participation, enhancing legality of government and improving political decision-making, the development of electronic democracy supplies the growth space for direct democracy.