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Why Citizen Participation May Be An Illusion
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o maybe all this excitement about engagement is just background noise. Over the last 25 centuries we have exercised different forms of democracy than what the ancient Greeks did (that was direct democracy) and for a reason. Representative democracy requires a level of formality that is hardly compatible with the transient nature of virtual communities. There will be hundreds, thousands of “city leagues”, but only those that turn themselves into some form of association or party will sit at the table.
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