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The Quality of Democracy as a Key to Cyber-Democracy

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Never until now during the known history of mankind was it so easy to communicate globally and to share information so rapidly. An increase of information and knowledge is resulting from the growing information exchange. The technical transformation processes have the impact that more and more aspects of politics, policies, or public opinion formation in a democracy are already now and will further be transferred into the digital world. A variety of factors is contributing to and responsible for these transformation processes. In this context, global networking and communication can be seen as one of the most critical factors. The increasing global networking and communication is closely linked to and build upon revolutionary developments in the information technology. Having this in mind, it becomes clear that today’s democratic societies have to be modernized, if they want to survive as functioning political democratic systems in the already established digital environment. This is even more important in the digital era for a democracy’s future as a Cyber Democracy. The thesis of this chapter is that a Cyber Democracy can only be implemented and maintained sustainably, when the basic principles of a democracy as well as the quality standards of a high-quality democracy are fulfilled to an extremely high degree. Our conclusion is that in due consideration of the high-quality standards for a democracy, a basic and sustainable concept for a Cyber Democracy can be established in the digital world.

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  1. Political Scientist and Academic Entrepreneur, Vienna Democracy Ranking Organization – Academic Ranking Team, Vienna, Austria

    Thorsten D. Barth

  2. Accounting System Standardisation, Schönaich, Germany

    Willi Schlegelmilch

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Elias G. Carayannis

  2. Department for Continuing Education Research and Educational Management, Centre for Educational Management and Higher Education Development, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

    David F. J. Campbell

  3. School of Law, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan Cyprus), Larnaka, Cyprus

    Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos

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    David F. J Campbell

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Barth, T.D., Schlegelmilch, W. (2018). The Quality of Democracy as a Key to Cyber-Democracy. In: Carayannis, E., Campbell, D., Efthymiopoulos, M. (eds) Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09069-6_44

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