Participatory democracy

Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy. Its variants include:

Related Topics:
Decision making - Democracy

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• Anticipatory democracy
• Consensus democracy
• Deliberative democracy
• Direct Access Democracy
• Direct democracy
• Non-partisan democracy

Representative democracy is not generally considered participatory. Bioregional democracy often is, but that is not necessary to its definition. Grassroots democracy is an alternative term that has actually been used to imply almost any combination of the above.

Related Topics:
Representative democracy - Bioregional democracy - Grassroots democracy

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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.

Related Topics:
Participatory politics - Parpolity

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