Sentences with phrase «citizen participation initiatives»

The way that citizen participation initiatives interact with elected representatives in large part determines how successfully they influence the policy process.

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This quality is la vertu... It conveys the idea that the citizen of a republic finds the beginning of his participation in governance in his own inner spirit, but that this spirit takes the form of action, and especially that kind of action that expresses willingness: initiative.26

Yet I argue that participation in initiatives to restore a civil society in America, with appropriate reflective self - understandings, could meet the needs and activate the worldly spirituality of precisely those millions of middle - of - the - road citizens looking for the sorts of moral meanings, the kinds of religious roots, these communities used to represent and in some ways still do.

We also have increased citizen participation on all fronts, including engaging the public on departmental policy and regulations and in local transportation decision - making through our Ladders of Opportunity efforts and initiatives such as the Every Place Counts challenge.