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The limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africa

The Participatory Democracy Turn, 2016
In general, South Africans view the formal participatory institutions of their state as ineffective mechanisms for the realization of their demands.
L. Piper, B. von Lieres
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How Participatory Budgeting Changes the Meaning and Practices of Citizenship

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2013
What does it mean to be a citizen today? In an era where boundaries are being questioned, where identities are being transformed, where social and political claims are being updated from the traditional ‘recognition’ or ‘redistribution’ discourse to a ...
Marta Rios Alves Nunes da Costa
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Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy

Contemporary Political Theory, 2021
Noelle McAfee
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The challenges of Crowdsourcing as one of the ways to realize participatory democracy in Iran's administrative law system [PDF]

دانشنامه حقوق اقتصادی
Participatory democracy is a new type of democracy that emphasizes the public participation of citizens in all public areas of society administration and considers elections as a means to choose rulers as one of the forms of participation.
Mohmmad Javad Hosseini, Mojtaba Hemmati
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From Participatory Democracy to Digital Democracy

Fast Capitalism, 2019
Tom Hayden posted on his website, http://www.tomhayden.com, an article he coauthored with Dick Flacks to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Port Huron Statement. The two SDS founders concluded, “Perhaps the most important legacy of the Port Huron Statement is the fact that it introduced the concept of participatory democracy to popular ...
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Five years of local democracy in federal Nepal (2017–2022)

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
Nepalʼs 2015 federal constitution empowers local governments with significant autonomy, power, and resources for local policymaking, developmental programs, and public services. This research examines this new landscape of local governance as experienced
Thaneshwar Bhusal, Keshav Kumar Acharya
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Donner une voix aux banlieues? Espaces de participation dans des projets de renouvellement urbain

Francosphères, 2014
The French suburbs (banlieues) have long been depicted as marginal in French society, both physically and metaphorically, with their populations seen as excluded economically and socially from the French mainstream.
Juliet Carpenter
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Examining citizen participation: local participatory policymaking and democracy revisited

, 2017
This article discusses developments in citizen participation and its contribution to democracy since the publication of the original article. It evaluates the continued relevance of the use of a normative framework to assess different forms of citizen ...
A. Michels, L. de Graaf
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Does direct democracy increase civic virtues? A systematic literature review

Frontiers in Political Science
Due to widespread citizen disenchantment with representative democracy, the introduction of direct-democratic institutions is often promoted as a promising remedy to overcome the current democratic crisis. Theorists of participatory democracy have argued
Laurent Bernhard
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Approximation to the constitutional regulation of the participatory democracy in Colombia and Spain. Compared study

Civilizar, 2015
With the constitutions of 1991 and 1978 as a benchmark, Colombia and Spain have respectively regulated various instruments of participatory democracy.
Alfredo Ramírez Nárdiz
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