Pamela J. Parker, a spokesman for the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reformm, which lobbied against changes in the existing rules, said Mr. Schweiker's Decision "shows that government can be responsive is its citizenry".
McCain reacted to Obama's decision to put country first in choosing Biden -- someone every American knows is qualified to take care of our citizenry should he be forced into office -- by turning his first decision as nominee-elect into a football game.
Only with the citizenry's analytical skills solidly in hand can a democracy thrive.
On the other hand, political and policy decision making in a complex society rarely involves the participation of the entire citizenry; actual decisions (laws, regulations, professional standards) are often made by a select group of stakeholders with specialized knowledge and privileged access to pertinent information and analysis.
Otherwise, in the words of Marx, it simply "relieves the citizenry of onerous decision-making obligations and intensifies their gathering sense of political impotence".
Believing in and upholding the right values for a long period of time individual liberty and responsibility of informed citizenry making its own decisions while debating, discussing, and sharing information (and misinformation)—is what makes societies democratic.
This paper considers how social learning processes could be used by such citizenry to aid information flows, decision making and policy implementation.
Will politicians -- Romney and Ryan first among them -- who want to leave the citizenry to make its own decisions permit women to decide what to do with our wombs?
It also implicates basic issues of democratic accountability, Bradley said, as it affects both the decision-making authority that can be transferred to institutions that may lack a direct connection to the nation's citizenry, as well as the internal distribution of authority between the executive and legislative branches of the government.
"By providing objective, uniform data, we can have an informed citizenry that meaningfully engages in community decision-making," Chiang wrote.
Having set the Australian context for decision making by citizenry in this introduction, the next section considers the decision to invest in PV technology.
