| Scottish home rule was a triumph of participatory democracy, but it arrived when people were losing the habit of participation. |
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| I have argued that participatory democracy is an element and condition of social justice. |
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| We have abandoned representative democracy in this country in the name of participatory democracy. |
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| It was convinced that improving education and instituting participatory democracy were key factors in the success of any development plan. |
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| Even so, I no doubt saw much more of the gabfest than did the vast majority of voters, which tells you something about the state of participatory democracy in Canada. |
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| And in particular, by engaging lay people as well as ordained ministers in the government of the Church, Presbyterianism prepared the people for participatory democracy. |
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| In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles. |
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| Rather, it opens the way towards a strengthening of participatory democracy. |
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| The city republic requires breaking open a closed and atrophied administrative democracy to achieve a participatory democracy. |
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| The European Parliament has a unique role to play in promoting participatory democracy and providing it with specific tools. |
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| It is having serious and long term lasting effects in terms of efficacy, citizen participation and participatory democracy. |
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| This document aims to define the measures needed to implement participatory democracy at European level. |
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| This has two dimensions: representative democracy, which is its foundation, and participatory democracy, which enhances it. |
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| In this interactive environment, students experience first hand the principles of participatory democracy. |
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| The African National Congress, for example, has in its policy documents made it clear that its adherence to a unitary government presupposes commitment to a lively, participatory democracy. |
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| An informed, participatory democracy demands nothing less. |
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| The basis for V4I is what they call participatory democracy. |
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| The second is that decentralisation, with participatory democracy as its political goal, makes it possible to respond to populations' needs while including them as both actors in and beneficiaries of the public action. |
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| The dynamic of participatory democracy recognizes the right of ideological and intellectual diversity to express itself and flourish in a State governed by the rule of law. |
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| We believe the principles of participatory democracy on which the Convention is based are relevant to, and should be applied to, all three pillars of sustainable development. |
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| At national and local level they are the means by which participatory democracy expresses itself and they allow for the active participation of citizens in the public arena. |
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| Another approach to participatory democracy was tested also in France. |
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| Decentralization is a broad concept that can be both a means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public services as well as a way to promote the broader values of pluralistic, participatory democracy. |
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| The broad and open availability of such public information is an important part of building participatory democracy, fostering open debate, and promoting good government processes. |
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| We cannot but approve of a participatory democracy that not only guarantees a opportunity for fruitful dialogue, but by that very fact reinforces the legitimacy of the decision-making process. |
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| They must be able to act independently, must be open to all civil society representatives, and must help to give expression to the important concept of participatory democracy. |
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| However, the current period of uncertainty should not prevent all of the European Union's actors from taking measures as of now to start making participatory democracy a reality. |
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| The World Social Forum is an opportunity for information exchange between people from many countries, creating a space for active participatory democracy. |
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| Cooperatives are a form of company that should be given every support, especially in political quarters, because they represent participatory democracy in action. |
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| In a participatory democracy, it gives every individual the right to meet at a designated place by common agreement with others in order to accomplish a specific objective. |
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| We are also happy to note that this process has helped countries to share their experiences of democracy and to identify means to promote pluralistic and participatory democracy. |
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| By articulating our values, mobilizing to create more participatory democracy, entrenching legal protections against systemic prejudices, and working in coalitions we can reverse these trends and move towards equity. |
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| These facts lead to many different adjectives being placed before the term democracy: liberal democracy, representative democracy, consociational democracy, participatory democracy and direct democracy, to name but a few. |
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| Call it the limits of participatory democracy. |
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