Before coming to illustrate some of the most popular formulas participatory reorganize a speech of illustration, perhaps already intrappreso in these pages, but still useful to clarify some basic concepts. The functioning of modern democracies.
In our system the citizens entitled to vote, delegate, on a regular basis, some of them, which will have the task of representing the government of the country. In this way they give up their political autonomy, in exchange for his freedom in the private sphere. The representative style democracy has seen a remarkable expansion in the twentieth century, for if they were in 1926 twenty-nine countries could claim democratic credentials, although they went down dramatically to twelve in 1942, after the defeat of Hitler and the collapse of the communist bloc, some seventy of one hundred twenty-seven UN member countries, can now be considered, in principle, representative democracies.
Despite the very positive development that came with this transfer is to be noted however that the space given in theory and in practice the city is minimal. The government and the decisions are exclusive exercise of the government, the citizen's task is simply to go to the polls to elect a regular basis. It is therefore lacking in many cases the nature of this first form of government, popular sovereignty, not by the will of elected representatives as to the impossibility of implementation due to the dire shortage of organs and instruments prepared listening to the public. In modern society and its government institutions lack the glue necessary to convey the widespread feeling of community on which the very idea of \u200b\u200bnation ed'appartenenza a 'single community: an inevitable result of the widespread lack of connections and consequent mistrust setting-up national dialogue.
The path described so far leads to the search for a new democratic idea, almost a hybrid of the two hitherto existing forms - direct and representative democracy - the new institution is called participatory democracy.
Vie alternatives through participation
We already wrote that if in Italian, means deliberate or decide to approve, the English "to deliberate" means to discuss and decide by common consent the deliberative adjective referring to democracy, comes from this meaning . The forms of participatory or deliberative democracy
have the ultimate aim to mediate between citizens and institutions, highlighting the eyes of the latest needs and requests of the first. You do not want to deprive the institutions of their duties, but to provide an additional tool for better governance. This is how the world laws that aim to regulate the instruments of participation. Tools, methods and rules that help the process of participation in public life and are aimed to provide the public bodies that are recognized and accredited through which to make their voices heard and participate in the choices of the government,
mainly, but not necessarily (I say), Local. Continue
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