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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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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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Participatory school design for participatory democracy
Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2, 2018This 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 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 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
Amory Starr +2 more
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Enhancing Participatory Democracy: Islington
1994In this chapter we examine the experience of the London Borough of Islington in developing a network of neighbourhood forums. It can be claimed that the council has gone further than any other local authority in the UK in attempting to improve the quality of public involvement in local government.
Danny Burns +2 more
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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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Deliberative and Participatory Democracy
2018Abstract This chapter explores the relationship between participatory and deliberative democracy; analysing their similarities and differences, compatibilities and tensions, to ascertain whether they should, and can, be pursued in tandem. The case is made that the normative and explanatory potential of each approach is diminished without
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Participatory Democracy in Theory
2003Participatory Democracy has been embraced by a growing number of intellectuals, and by leaders and activists of the political Left and Center-Left throughout the world, as a means to directly address the problems of Elitist Democracy.1 It has also been adopted by many within the international development communiry, and even by a large number of ...
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The effect of COVID‐19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy?
European Journal of Political Research, 2021Damien Bol, Marco Giani, André Blais
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