政府的数字极限：电子民主的失败
Digital Limits of Government: The Failure of E-Democracy
摘要：
虽然互联网经常被吹捧为一项革命性的技术，但可以指出的是，民主机构并没有通过互联网见证数字革命。这一观察导致本章认为，电子民主领域一般不辜负自己的改革言论。它认为，电子民主项目不是通过技术改革政府程序，而是往往侧重于降低成本和提高现有政治程序的效率，或者侧重于分析在专门建立的电子民主平台之外发生的公民参与。本章认为，这种缺乏关注的互联网的潜力，在正式的政治机构的系统性变化，对社会的民主化几乎没有规范的影响，甚至可能重新执行，而不是挑战，社会政治现状。此外，它还表明，目前的电子民主方法有可能使互联网正常化，使其符合离线世界的规范和期望。为了阐明这一论点，本章概述了电子民主项目的总体趋势和对这些项目的批评。最后，本章提出了一个更激进的电子民主的愿景，它建议，将迎来一个更大的民主化的潜力。这种更为激进的电子民主观包括承认互联网超越模拟世界限制的属性，并将其应用于民主。这种方法将为设想新的政治进程和制度开辟道路，使电子民主领域能够实现自己的言论，并为社会提供解决民主所面临的多个世纪的老问题的手段。
英文摘要：
While the Internet is often touted as a revolutionary technology, it might be noted that democratic institutions have witnessed no digital revolution through the Internet. This observation leads this chapter to argue that the field of e-democracy has generally failed to live up to its own reformist rhetoric. It argues that instead of reforming government processes through technology, e-democracy projects have tended to focus either on lowering the costs and increasing the efficiency of existing political processes or on analysing the civic participation that occurs outside of purpose-built e-democracy platforms. The chapter suggests that this lack of attention to the Internet's potential for systemic change in formal political institutions has little normative impact on the democratization of society and may even re-enforce, rather than challenge, the sociopolitical status quo. Further, it suggests that the current approach of e-democracy risks normalizing the Internet to the norms and expectations of the offline world. To elucidate this argument, this chapter overviews both the general trend of e-democracy projects and criticisms of those projects. Finally, the chapter proposes a more radical vision of e-democracy that, it suggests, would usher a larger potential for democratization. This more radical vision of e-democracy consists of recognizing the attributes of the Internet that transcend the limits of the analogue world and applying these to democracy. Such an approach would open the path for envisaging new political processes and systems, allowing the field of e-democracy to live up to its own rhetoric, and affording society the means to address multiple of the centuries-old problems faced by democracy.
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