'participative democracy' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a form of democracy where citizens play an active role in the process, often through direct voting on policies or laws. For example, "The government is hoping to promote a more participative democracy by allowing citizens to vote on changes to the taxation laws."
Young people in Scotland have embraced participative democracy like never before".
The Nuit debout is a more radical approach to reinventing participative democracy.
We need to have an honest debate about where the boundary is between representative and participative democracy".
So we have introduced more participative democracy, with closer relations between the elected, the administration and the people.
The development of new technologies and scientific innovation places decision-making power in the hands of experts, putting added pressure on modern liberal forms of representative and participative democracy.
In one of those contradictions thrown up by their participative democracy, Uruguayans voted to retain an amnesty law protecting many involved in state repression on the same day they picked Mujica for president.
Ben Abbes said open government was the "most promising route" for the new government, but said it could only be achieved through the active participation of the Tunisian people themselves, adding that he hoped the country's initiatives would be a model for participative democracies across the Arab world.
It doesn't mean that Turkish voters don't care about the universal values of freedom of speech and media, or a pluralist political culture or other tenets of participative democracies.
Gordon Brown has fared no better: Mansfield has described him as "Blair without the bling", warned that Britain is living "very close to, if not in, a police state" and characterised the country as "a non-participative democracy in which the ballot box is rendered almost powerless".
This paper explores these issues and considers the way forward for the design and use of wGDSS and for a more substantive approach to participative e-democracy.
Only when put into practice will we discover how, or if, the Podemos participative "method" changes democracy, European politics or ordinary lives.
