Information and Digital Toolset in a Fight against Liberal Democracy and Values of Open Society
Information and Digital Toolset in a Fight against Liberal Democracy and Values of Open Society

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the information and digital toolset in a fight against liberal democracy and values of an open society. The overall trend of the present world development is such that transition to the post-industrial society, with its inherent variety of interests and values of different social groups and organizations, impetuous development of information technologies, etc. leads to the transformation of political institutes of democracy. In connection with this, modern democracy faces serious challenges. Demands to its efficiency and associated expectations have grown, while the ability of democratic states to solve development problems has not changed much. Inversion of democracy is also related to globalization and striving for comprehensive security. The decline of people’s trust in the institutes of modern democracy; permanent growth of expectations from the regulatory capabilities of politics against the background of minimization of the idea of responsibility; the growing role of mass media and new uncontrolled decision-making centers that enter a competition with democratically legitimized institutes lead to atomization of society, its transformation into a set of autonomous information communities, giving rise to the “democracy of minorities”, on the one hand, and to а democratic global government, on the other. To survive, democracy needs continuous flexible adaptation to external and internal challenges, as a long-term project. Its future lies in change, rather than in the desire to preserve stability.

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