Abstract: As a new form of public decision, network accountability puts forward new requirements for the local governments in the traditional mode of public decision. The improper response to network accountability may lead to public crises and security problems. Some typical cases illustrate that citizen's participation via network in the public decision-making can be realized in rules listed as below: citizen's participation via network is an important source of legitimacy for public decision-making; incontrollable network public opinions may cause public decision-making crisis; citizen's rational participation is helpful for getting rid of public decision-making predicament. In the age of network and information, local governments determining to get out of the public decision-making predicament should take the following countermeasures: more pluralistic democratic participation, more effective citizenship participation, stronger dominance on discourse power and higher network governance capabilities of local governments.

Key words: citizenship network accountability, local goverment, public decision