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Participatory Democracy in Action

open access: yesLatin American Perspectives, 2010
Participatory 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 ...
Amory Starr   +2 more
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Participatory school design for participatory democracy

Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2, 2018
This paper describes a hands-on workshop in the democratic design of a school, including decisions about curriculum, instruction, assessment, learning spaces, and practices. Participants are guided through a series of Phases of Action, and make all design decisions by Formal Consensus, to collaboratively draft a school plan.
Sean M. Z. Anderson, Michael McCabe
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Participatory Democracy

2007
AbstractThis chapter examines participatory democracy in youth-led community organizing. It discusses the elements and forms of participatory democracy and the evolution of civic participation. It then reviews literature on participatory democracy.
Melvin Delgado, Lee Staples
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Participatory Democracy

2021
In Participatory Democracy: The Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica, Marc Anthony Thomas expands the existing knowledge on participatory democracy. Parish development committees were established as a means for Jamaicans to inform government policy, and Thomas explores the extent to which supportive institutional, infrastructural and ...
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Towards Decision Support for Participatory Democracy

Information Systems and e-Business Management, 2007
In many parts of the world there is growing demand for participation in public policy decision making. This demand could be satisfied by the design and deployment of Web-based group decision support systems to aid large groups of, possibly unsophisticated, users in participating in such decisions.
David Ríos Insua   +3 more
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Aristotle on Participatory Democracy

Polity, 1978
The 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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