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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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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, 2007In 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.
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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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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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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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