Felicitas Schoenherr
"strengthens democracy through the Internet, new ways to become politically informed, get involved and organize in groups or weakens democracy by for individualization of information and communication flows and thereby leads to the splitting of society "(Internet & Society Collaboraty: 2010)?. That quote illustrates the diversity that raises the issue of electronic public participation in the representative system. " The need of the population for more say in relation to public issues, is reflected currently in the Baden-Wuerttemberg protest "Stuttgart 21" again, to name just one example of the relevance of the topic. Electronic citizen participation could be both at local and national level, the opportunity to meet that need. This could lead to greater acceptance of each of the decisions taken by citizens, the local sense of belonging could also be strengthened and increased participation in decision-making could lead to any qualitative improvement. Nothing, despite the more, The following examples show the e-petition and e-consultation that takes place despite the lower participation effort, only a small civic participation. In the next section, these examples are presented, but first a brief comment follows the "classical" petition and consultation in order to classify the electronic equivalent of better.
consultations in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
The word consultation is Latin and refers to the collection of information and advice from political decisions that a state make their own needs, but no legal right to co is granted. Consultations are available in the FRG in formal and informal in shape. Legally required participation procedures can be found mainly in urban development planning that will ensure that the public is given room for expression, said to have said as not binding.
petitions in Germany
petitions formulated in writing designate a command, complaint or a request to a government agency or parliament, enshrined since 1949 in Article 17 of the Basic Act as a fundamental right of every citizen. This is to ensure that every citizen, regardless of its status, the ability to has to be able to contribute his opinion in a political debate. A petition may be filed either by an individual as well as a group at the respective Petition Committee, the petitioner has no claim to the implementation of its concern.
e-consultation portal on the example of the civil law
The e-consultation, the Federal Ministry of the Interior tried to open a channel to channel criticism of the concept of de-mail. The e-consultation took place over 3.5 weeks, while the site was accessed almost 12,000 times and it was written 350 posts. Although there on the website good opportunities was to gain information on the Citizens Portal Act, such as the possible questions to write a review to download the bill or in a live chat with project director citizen portals, ask questions, participation was rather low. Sun led just about 70 reviews for real substantive changes in the civil law portal. But you have been observed here that this is likely acted to people who does have knowledge, but without the possibility of e-consultation is not perceived as such and would have so it does not change the law to obtain. The method allows the e-consultation, including experts who are not perceived as such, to achieve improvements in their knowledge. Even if the e-consultation has not received a great response, it has been achieved, the very people who wanted to reach them. However, found in an e-consultation no real exchange instead, because communication tends strongly in one direction. Thus, only the most common questions answered and included only those improvements that are consistent with the views of the legislature.
discussion
In the ensuing discussion, it is gone mainly to the possible impact of non-binding, which include the examples of electronic citizenship. influence, the question has been raised in this case includes, in particular, whether the citizens are held by the non-binding nature of their contributions from a participation contribute because they feel nothing and have to seriously. The opinion of the plenary is rather gone in the direction that the people who want to participate do so and are not held by the non-binding it.
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