participatory democracy
Noun
Meaning
participatory democracy (countable and uncountable, plural participatory democracies)
A kind of democracy not limiting participation of citizens to voting, but striving to create opportunities for everybody to make meaningful contributions to decision-making.
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In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
Acting as a dynamic laboratory for participatory democracy, Occupy Wall Street helped give birth to several that has since worked on a range of critical issues, including higher minimum wage.
In 1984, the PNDC also created a National Commission on Democracy to study ways to establish participatory democracy in Ghana.
His victory came with much support from the younger generation and civic groups who had hopes of a participatory democracy, and Roh's administration consequently launched with the motto of "participation government".
Others have argued that ward committees (the hands and feet of participatory democracy) are a farce and are not working.