Despre democrația participativă și democrația digitală
On participatory democracy and digital democracy

Summary/Abstract: In Europe, the involvement of the citizen in the life of the city has been a method of leveling the relations between administrative and governed authorities since the 1960s. Until then, it had been dominated by lack of communication and excessive bureaucracy. Lack of reaction, distancing from political and administrative life, absenteism, lack of civic culture in certain situations, are some of the factors that negatively influence what we call, in large part, participatory democracy, implicitly the chance of those governed to impose their opinions or to meet those who govern them and who, paradoxically, constantly ask them to be transparent, efficient in communication and to make timely decisions. Our article wants to highlight to what extent the classic methods of citizen involvement in decision-making are still effective and, especially, why democracy of this type has gained new value, lately being obviously influenced more and more by social networks.

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