%0 Journal Article
%T E-participation in the Decision-Making Process in Post-Communist Countries
%A Džatková, Veronika
%J Public Administration Yearbook
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/24497800RAP.17.010.7061
%N 2017 (3)
%P 156-165
%K civil society, representative democracy, political participation, e-participation, participatory gap
%@ 2449-7797
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/rocznik-administracji-publicznej/article/e-participation-in-the-decision-making-process-in-post-communist-countries
%X 
	Besides other aspects, one of the fundamental conditions of the modern political system is active and powerful civil society. Representatives of civil society and their increasing influence provide the background for increasing political participation and civic activism with the aim to make decision-making processes more effectual and having an impact on public policy actors. In that context, the objective of the article is to pay particular attention to one of the forms of participation, specifically using a comparative method to theoretically analyse the perspectives and limits of e-participation. The paper presumes the inevitable role of e-participation in the current modernisation of public administration processes which could overcome obstacles related to the participatory gap in post-communist countries.