A Study Of Practical Difficulties And Countermeasures In The Development Of Cyber Democracy In China

With the advent of the information age, the network not only become an importanttechnology tool of people’s lives, but also had a huge impact on people’s political life.Network society, with unique advantages of freedom, openness, equality, covertness, changesthe traditional way of information transfer, arouses the enthusiasm of the people’s politicalparticipation, broadens the space for people’s political participation, improves administrativeefficiency, increases government work transparency, and hugely promotes democraticpolitical lives. However, the network is a "double-edged sword" which promotes thedevelopment of democratic politics on the one hand and brings some negative impact on theother hand, such as network violence, network group events or even leading to anarchy.Nevertheless, the cyber democracy, playing a vital role in supplementing and extending thepolitical realities, is an inevitable product of social development. The present thesis is carriedout on the theme of cyber democracy with the analysis of practical difficulties andcountermeasures in the development of cyber democracy in China. The thesis is divided intothree parts: first, definitions of cyber democracy and summarization of cyber democracy’scharacteristics, practical forms of the constituents; second, comprehensive discussion of thecurrent development of cyber democracy in China and detailed analysis of its currentdilemma and the reasons; third, and the most important part of the thesis, based on theprevious discussion, the thesis puts forward basic principles and specific measures to promotehealth development of the cyber democracy.