Cyberdemocracy as a Future Product of Political Systems Engineering

This paper discusses probable future political organization of democracy being a product of political systems engineering. Development of the Information Society and change of the parts of representative and direct democracy in the democratic paradigm are considered as socio-political premises for arising of a new form of “cyberdemocracy.” Nature of the cyberspace, arise and development of e-civilization in it, e-democracy and e-voting, virtual communities and their other supportive cyber-means are discussed next as civilizational and technical premises. Finally, a vision of the cyberdemocracy system as a specific structure of cyber-communities immerse in the cyberspace is presented.