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unusual facts about participatory democracy


Participatory democracy

Participatory politics (or parpolity) is a long-range political theory that also incorporates many of the above and strives to create a political system that will allow people to participate in politics, as much as possible in a face-to-face manner.


Eugene Nelson

"I think the chief priorities today," he wrote in 1993, "are preventing nuclear explosions; feeding the starving; lessening pollution and the exhaustion of the earth's resources; achieving a much lower birth rate; homes for all; and cooperative and participatory democracy (with compassion) in all aspects of life."


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Benjamin Radcliff

This work culmuninated in a 2000 article in The Journal of Politics that sought to establish that the only democratic models to survive the challenges posed by social choice theory were in fact the radical interpretations of democracy known as participatory democracy or deliberative democracy.

Catalonian parliamentary election, 2010

Catalonian branch of Republican Left, the political party of the former President of the Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña, this political party promotes republicanism, federalism, secularism and participatory democracy, with the objective of the proclamation of the Third Spanish Republic and the Catalonian State integrated in the republican federation.