Some scholars argue that it also has shifted power away from government to the private market.
In his key note address to the upcoming Internet and Governance conference , Dean Joseph S. Nye will discuss the new challenges posed by the information revolution to traditional forms of governance. Nye sees the Internet as ultimately improving democratic governments but says that it will present obstacles. The US was founded as a deliberative democracy where policy decisions are made after a thorough public discussion of all sides of an issue. The idea of deliberative democracy is that discourse can influence thinking and refine citizens' opinions. Thus voting is different from taking a set of instantaneous opinion polls.