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Participatory Democracy in Action
Latin American Perspectives, 2010Participatory democracy has been studied as an auxiliary to state processes and as an institutional and cultural part of social movements. Studies of the use of participatory democracy by the Zapatistas of Mexico and the Movimento Sem Terra (Landless Movement—MST) of Brazil show a shared concern with autonomy, in particular avoidance of demobilization ...
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Aristotle on Participatory Democracy
Polity, 1978The nature and role of political participation have in recent years been the center of discussion with reference to both the American system of government and the more general concepts of political science. The patent indifference of the Founding Fathers of the American republic to participatory democracy seems to have left them open to the charge of ...
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A Defense of Participatory Democracy
The Review of Politics, 1985In order to defend participatory democracy in large-member voluntary organizations, Michels's challenge to traditional democratic theory must be answered. By arguing that the technical, sociological, and psychological processes of modern organizations invariably result in leaders dominating members, Michels questioned democratic theorists' assertions ...
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Participatory Democracy Revisited
Perspectives on Politics, 2012Over the past two decades we have heard an historically unprecedented volume of talk about and praise of democracy, and many governmental, non-governmental, and international organizations have been engaged in democracy promotion. Democracy is a subject that crosses the boundaries in political science, and within my own field of political theory there ...
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Participatory Democracy in Venezuela
2011Margarita López Maya, Luis E. Lander
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The Ambiguities of Participatory Democracy
2011After having examined EU citizenship and the European Union as a governance system in the two preceding chapters, in this final chapter of Part I, I will now go through the question of participatory democracy in order to complete the review of thematizations on the European democratic experiment and to examine how such thematizations take into account ...
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Expanding Participatory Democracy
2012For most of the century, transportation decisions were made by engineers and planners in government organizations. With the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 and its successors, pubic officials participating on MPOs gained some control of transportation decisions within their urban areas.
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