Research On The Public Forum-building Of Chinese Government Website From The Perspective Of Deliberative Democracy

With the fast development of modern information technology and communicationtechnology, it becomes a general trend that every government makes effort to builde-government to reply the challenge and opportunity that knowledge economy brought.E-government is one of the practice form of electronic democracy implementation. As acontent of e-government building, the building of government website is paid wideattention by every government gradually. In numerous media communication forms,network public forum and consulting type module based on the internet are welcomedspecially.The building and development of government website pushes forward the reformof government organization whose core idea has been building service-orientedgovernment. In government website, public forum is an important form of thenegotiation, interaction and communication between government and public. Publicforum constructs a virtual space for public where the public can obtain the informationof government, understand the related policies of government, reflect social condition ofthe people and offer advice about national development.Public forum of governmentwebsite is the important vector of electronic democracy, which practices deliberativedemocracy and plays an important role in healthy development of deliberativedemocracy. Public forum of government website guarantees the public power ofpolitical participation and participating in politics, promotes the construction ofdemocratic politics.The building and development of public forum of governmentwebsite is beneficial to understand public demands in time, strengtheningcommunication between government and public effectively; it is beneficial to improvepublic credit and transparency of the government, and provides a convenient way forpublic to obtain the information about government, publish opinion and offer advice,promoting public to exercise the right of supervision. Whichever public forum-buildingof government website is good or bad is related to the success or failure of e-government and the process of deliberative democracy development.How to build and perfect public forum of government website is a subject thatmany experts and researchers at home and abroad have studied deeply. However,deliberative democracy theories provide a new perspective for the research on the publicforum-building of government website. With political consultation system built,deliberative democracy occupies an important position in China. Therefore, the researchon how to play the deliberative democracy function and effect of the public forum ofgovernment website better has important theoretical and practical significance.In thispaper, with the background on e-government and government website building, an idealoperation mode of the public forum of government website from the perspective ofdeliberative democracy has been proposed by means of related theories,such asdeliberative democracy and communicative action theories. According to the idealoperation mode, the building status of public forum of government website, made up ofthe nation, states, autonomous region and municipality directly under the centralgovernment, has been investigated and researched to dig out deep reasons about publicforum of government website is hindered to play a role in the deliberative democracy.Countermeasures about perfecting the basic functions and deeply digging out thenegotiation interaction functions of public forum of government website are put forwardto play a more important role in deliberative democracy.From the perspectives of government website’s deliberative democracy functiondesign and play, the paper deeply digs out the answers existed in the building of publicforum of government website, based on the important thought of western deliberativedemocracy, breaching the limitation of single research on network forum building orpublic forum (government forum) of government website from researchers at home andabroad, and puts forward a countermeasure about building an ideal public forum ofgovernment website with deliberative democracy function, in the hope of offering a newidea for related research on network forum or public forum (government forum) ofgovernment website.