| 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. |
| I have argued that participatory democracy is an element and condition of social justice. |
| 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. |
| In spite of her fervent devotion to the virtues of participatory democracy, localism and the educational imperative, the works only partially exhibited these principles. |
| We have abandoned representative democracy in this country in the name of participatory democracy. |
| Scottish home rule was a triumph of participatory democracy, but it arrived when people were losing the habit of participation. |
