Volume : 7, Issue : 10, October - 2018

Participatory & Representative democracy and Future of Participatory Democracy in India

Dr Rita Kumari

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:&#10;normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Participatory democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both direct and representative democracy: Citizens have the power to decide on policy proposals and politicians assume the role of policy implementation.The aim of this paper is to compare both democracies i.e, participatory and representative alongwithoperation of bothdemocracies.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#1D1B11;mso-themecolor:background2;mso-themeshade:26">This paper also deals about the scope of f</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:&#10;normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#1D1B11;mso-themecolor:background2;mso-themeshade:26">uture of Participatory Democracy in India</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;color:#1D1B11;mso-themecolor:background2;mso-themeshade:26">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>