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Examine the ‘Participatory Model of Democracy’.

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  • Democracy

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The participatory model holds that citizens should take part directly and continuously in the decisions that shape their lives: at work, in the locality and in the polity, not only at elections. It was revived against Joseph A. Schumpeter's competitive elitism by Carole Pateman (Participation and Democratic Theory, 1970). Tested against the evidence, its educative…

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