Digital (electronic) democracy in Russia: the concept and limits
https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-2-14-20
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the concept and phenomenon of digital (electronic) democracy as an expression of Russian democratic statehood at the present stage of its development. The regularity of digital democracy is determined, its predetermination by scientific and technological progress, the global digitalization of political and legal processes in the country, the intensive introduction of interactive information and communication technologies in the digital dimension into the public legal space, qualitatively changing the level of relations between the state, society and the individual by expanding the participation of citizens in the totality of public legal activities on the different levels of state and municipal organization that increase the level of state democracy.
The article examines the relationship of traditional democracy in its direct and representative expressions with electronic democracy, asserts their fundamental unity, consisting in the expression of the sovereign will of the people, and at the same time reveals their organizational and technical differences, which make it possible to characterize digital democracy as an innovative form of democracy based on the widespread use of modern digital technologies in the mechanisms of popular will.
The novelty of the research is determined by the novelty of the phenomenon of digital (electronic) democracy itself, which relatively recently became the property of Russian public-legal reality, which has not yet received a unified conceptual and conceptual understanding in legal science.
About the Authors
R. M. Dzidzoev
FGBOU VO "Kuban State University"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ruslan M. Dzidzoev, Dr. of Sci. (Law), Professor, Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law
Stavropol str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040
Tel.: +7 (918) 968-99-01
A. S. Lolaeva
FGBOU VO "Gorsky State Agrarian University"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Albina S. Lolaeva, Cand. of Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law
Kirova str., 37, Vladikavkaz, RNO-Alania, 362040
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Dzidzoev R.M., Lolaeva A.S. Digital (electronic) democracy in Russia: the concept and limits. Legal Bulletin of the Kuban State University. 2022;(2):14-20. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-2-14-20
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