The Research On Cyber-political Participation And The Construction Of China Democracy

With the arrival of the era of the Internet, network becomes a new platformwhere citizens participate in the political life. With cyber-political participationdeveloping and deepening, they bring a profound revolution in social public politicallife and influence the development process of the socialist democratic politics.Cyber-political participation is era carrier which realizes the essential requirement ofthe socialist democratic politics construction under the new era background, at thesame time, the socialist democratic politics can also provide institutional guarantee forthe healthy and ordered development of cyber-political participation.At this stage of China, as the social stratum is divided gradually, the sectionalinterests come forward constantly, all kinds of new contradictions appear andcumulate, it becomes a subject of the day that not only how to guide and normalizecitizens participate in the political life orderly, but also impels the socialist democraticpolitics construction actively and steadily. Firstly, the article discusses briefly of theessence and mutual relationship about cyber-political participation and socialistdemocratic politics theoretically. secondly, the article analyzes further the role ofcyber-political participation in socialist democratic politics construction. On the onehand, cyber-political participation has a positive effect on socialist democratic politicsconstruction. For instance, it is conducive to achieve political decision-makingscientific and democratization, it is conducive to create the participatory politicalculture, etc. On the other hand, it also brings a lot of negative influences on socialistdemocratic politics construction. Such as the "Digital divide", disorderly andirrational participating will weaken the foundation of democratic politics and shakethe legitimacy of political system, etc. Thirdly, the article illustrates the existingproblems and forming causes of Citizen’s online political participation at the presentstage of China. There are mainly four aspects: the imbalance in information resourcespossession, imbalance in participating groups structural, Internet dependence andInternet legal environmental system is imperfect. Finally, Take the chance of cyber-political participation, the article explores efficient path that regulatingcitizen cyber-political participation orderly, and use it’s to promoting the socialistdemocratic politics construction actively and steadily.