five criteria for a democratic process
These five criteria for a democratic process that Robert Dahl suggests which are effective participation, voting equality, enlightened understanding, control of the agenda, inclusion of adults are really important. Here are the explications of each of these criteria: Effective participation: The government (the global decision maker) is supposed to search for a fair strategy generating its decisions influencing a population of citizens (local decision makers). ... According to Robert Dahl, it is possible to identify some criteria that a process for governing an association would have to have in order to satisfy the requirement that all the members are equally entitled to participate in the association’s decisions about its policies.