The next step in democratic evolution is overdue
The HinduThe human body, like a nation, is composed of structures and processes. Democratic constitutions provide elected assemblies for citizens’ representatives to shape new policies and pass laws. Widening fissures Sadly, the cracks in the Indian nation dividing ‘people like us’ from ‘people not like us’, are widening in institutions at the top as well as in relationships on the ground. This time around, it is a franchise that does not necessarily express itself through the right to vote in periodic elections, but rather through widespread inclusion in the political process in all its forms.” A civil society movement, Citizens for Europe, has proposed a solution: a European Citizens’ Assembly — a permanent transnational forum for citizens’ participation and deliberation. The missing dialogues Human societies are also complex systems, composed of many formal institutions, and many processes of interactions among people.
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