However, Taken The Expression On The Internet Begins A Beginning Of Direct ...
However, taken the expression on the internet begins a beginning of direct democracy, that risks destabilizing the instituted forms of executive power such as legislative one. The assigned expression of a political majority, especially if this one must be somewhat coherent and durable, evidently will not be able to result from a deafening set of individual expressions. Mediators, door voice, will be necessary. But there again, the technologies of information will bring solutions. The method of the portal allows mustering and sort by themes or memberships the authors of opinions or their publications. One can even, consider methods more or less automatic of analysis and classifications of the expressed opinions on different sites web or personal pages, in order to appear tendencies, with the related percentages of opinions. In theory, a permanent cycle of transmission of opinions, analyze, publication of the results, could thus set in motion and to be maintained, while enriching progressively itself by the appearance of new opinions and modification of the already formulated opinions. On the other hand, and in the matter of votes, or of consultation in real time, it would be conceivable to put some places opinion observatories for which a number of persons would be involved to give, day to day, an opinion or a quotation concerning the decisions of the executive power, indeed on the judicial power. The constitutionalists will emphasize the risk of such systems, being able to drive the government or the judges to preoccupy excessively from public opinion (i.e. regarding that such opinion can easily be handled in a strong manner that is not very democratic). But on the other hand, isn't right to show some mistake against citizen by putting as a rule his inability to emit a sensible judgement, even in the domains that it does not know? The broadcasting of the society of information, that should translate itself by a sensitive increase of the level and the distribution of competences, would have to the opposite, to encourage the citizens to claim a bigger place in the political decisions. 4. Conclusion In the practice, before envisioning the radical change of the participation rules of the citizens to the functioning of the democratic institutions and to political life, it imports to be attentive to all new phenomena that result from the internet development, and to measure their impact on political life. From this observation, some simple initiatives, but likely to improve the democracy, will be able to be adopted. Some one will come from authorities or assemblies, but others will come from citizens and associations. The look concerning these initiatives do not must emanate only from sociologists or specialists in political sciences, or political parties but also from each citizen.
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