Sentences with phrase «how citizen participation»
Fewer than one in five high school students are able to explain how citizen participation benefits democracy.
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How can we be free when so many citizens think our political system ill serves them, and have withdrawn themselves from formal participation?
The way that citizen participation initiatives interact with elected representatives in large part determines how successfully they influence the policy process.
Through this kind of project, students not only learn how data is important to good decision making, they also take notice of the invisible building blocks of community, including the citizen participation necessary to developing an inviting and workable place to live — both important and lasting life lessons.
Nepal's easternmost district of Ilam is known for its diligent citizens and scenic tea gardens, but it is also showing the way about how towns can be cleaner and greener with community participation and competent leadership.
The theme — The impact of open access to legal information: bridging the gap between accessibility and usefulness — presents attendees with huge scope for discussion, and as a parliamentary librarian, I'm interested to see how many of the suggested themes go beyond the courts and into areas of citizen participation in law - making.
In her keynote address, Professor Davis explained how most international human rights agreements are not part of Australian domestic law and that Australia has a «rights reluctant» culture which limits citizens» participation.
And since the health of a democracy depends on the involvement of its citizens — we must learn how to use our freedom, as Tocqueville put it — it seems clear that attempts to improve political participation should begin as early as possible, and not just with lectures about civics.
There have been suggestions in recent years that the whole notion of meaningful citizen participation in lawmaking has fallen out of fashion — that no matter how hard you try, or how sincere your efforts, the legislative outcome is predetermined by forces beyond your control.