SOC 248 Chapter Notes - Chapter Democracy: Bertelsmann, Socalled, International Monetary Fund
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No complete inventory of reform efforts: referendums and initiatives, given citizens much more direct channel of participation in decision making than they had in the past a. Assembly of self-selected or randomly chosen citizens to debate the distribution b. Bring ordinary citizens closer to the policy-making process by personal. Candidates from all parties compete and top 2 vote-getters regardless of. Participatory budgeting of some proportion of a govt unit"s total budget participation. Party primary= device for selecting from among candidate competing for a political party"s nomination, had long been a peculiarity of us politics party affiliation become nominees for general election held again. Public funding for political parties is new innovation. Quotas for women electoral candidates or even as members of legislature reserved for women. Devolution of greater powers to subnational political units more accountable. Complaint that the existing democracies are short sighted. Some countries have legislated that 1/2 of lower proportion of seats in the legislature be.