participatory democracy

...In other words, the core democratic rights of citizens, such as freedom and resistance, become weak and impossible to exercise, and the manipulation of power extends not only to material things but also to the mind. In the 1970s, demands for participatory democracy became prominent among citizens in developed countries. This was a criticism of the concentration of power in a central government with a huge bureaucratic organization from the above perspective, and sought to create a government structure that could be controlled by citizens. Modern decentralization does not mean a return to simple local autonomy, but rather the segmentation of political power based on participatory democracy. ...

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…つまり，市民の民主的権利の核心である自由権や抵抗権が希薄かつ行使不可能となり，逆に権力の操作が物資ばかりか精神にまで及ぶことになる。　1970年代に先進国で参加デモクラシーparticipatory democracyの要求が市民の間で顕著となったが，これは巨大な官僚機構を備えた中央政府への権力集中を上記の観点から批判し，市民が統御可能な政府構造を創出しようとするものである。現代における地方分権decentralizationは，素朴な地方自治への回帰ではなく，参加デモクラシーに基づき政治権力を分節化することを意味している。…

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