Internet-tekhnologii obrazuyut printsipial'no novye vozmozhnosti kommunikatsii i vzaimodeystviya: delayut dostupnoy politicheskuyu informatsiyu, uproshchayut poluchenie obratnoy svyazi, sozdayut novye formy uchastiya naseleniya v politicheskom protsesse, stanovyatsya istochnikom prozrachnosti deystviy politicheskikh institutov i konkretnykh politikov. Blagodarya ispol'zovaniyu Internet-tekhnologiy stanovitsya vozmozhnym pryamoy dialog s izbiratelem. Tselevoe primenenie politicheskikh Internet-tekhnologiy sposobstvuet sokrashcheniyu distantsii mezhdu vlast'yu i obshchestvom, usilivaet razvitie demokraticheskikh protsessov, formirovanie grazhdanskogo obshchestva. Dannoe issledovanie posvyashcheno opredeleniyu roli Internet-tekhnologiy kak instrumenta vzaimodeystviya institutov politicheskoy vlasti i grazhdan v Rossii. V rabote opredeleno znachenie politicheskikh tekhnologiy v usloviyakh transformiruyushchegosya informatsionnogo prostranstva, utochneno soderzhanie Interneta kak politicheskoy tekhnologii, oboznacheny kriterii otsenki effektivnosti ispol'zovaniya Internet-tekhnologiy v protsesse vzaimodeystviya politicheskoy vlasti i obshchestva, vyyavlena dinamika ispol'zovaniya Interneta v politicheskikh kampaniyakh v Rossii.