1. How Can Citizens be Informed Examining the Democratic Practices of iVoters

DOI

10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Questionnaires, iVoter, Deliberative democracy.

Abstract

Democracy is experiencing it is worst setback since the mid-20th Century. The US magazine Foreign Affairs even posed the question in an article entitled “Is Democracy Dying?” Published on April 2018 issue, assessing the impact that exogenous factors have on liberal democracy. The exogenous factors is the rise of European political parties and American conservatives because the cross-border flow of migrants and refugees and the blurring of boundaries due the rise of China and globalization. This paper examines how citizens acquire information of political issues, whether they can succesfully acquire such knowledge, the effect of information on citizen political decision-making, and problems in Taiwan, particularly sociologist, have focused on the deliberative democracy in Taiwan, particulary sociologist have focused on deliberative procces concerning local public issues that are of concern to resident.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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