Digital democracy has become a contemporary study in social and political science, but theoretically the term digital democracy does not yet have a definite pattern, this makes digital democracy fail to be understood both theoretically and practically. Therefore, this research has basic questions about; how the theoretical development of digital democracy through the trend of research publications based on the Scopus index. This article uses a qualitative description methodology, and data analysis techniques using research software; Vosviewer and NVivo 12 plus. The findings in this study see that scholars focus on the theme of e-government and digital political participation, in e-government the research theme focuses on government services through open government data and studies on the function of official government social media for public communication. While the research theme of digital political participation focuses on the study of e-voting and digital social movement. Digital democracy in a positive perspective can also encourage the character of a deliberative democratic system. Referring to the data of research publications that have been analyzed, the researcher concludes a new finding: that digital democracy can theoretically be categorized into two. First, the electoral aspect, which understands that digital democracy creates a digital transformation of government work, which is marked by open government data, digital services, and digital information. Second, the-non electoral aspect, which sees digital democracy as an opportunity for civil society to be involved in political participation in a country, such as electronic elections, online political participation, and digital activism.