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Explain the concept of Participatory Democracy. What conditions are assumed to be conducive to participation?

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  • Politics and Society

Participatory democracy is a model in which citizens take part directly and continuously in the decisions that affect their lives, at work, in the community and in the polity. It goes beyond occasionally choosing representatives. It developed as a critique of Joseph Schumpeter's competitive elitist model (Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942), in which democracy is…

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