Citizen participation at the level of local rural communities – tentative analysis
Citizen participation at the level of local rural communities – tentative analysis

Summary/Abstract: Citizen participation is an important element of contemporary democracy. It is considereda panacea to the declining participation of citizens in political and public life. People may decide toparticipate for various reasons. It is important that participation promotes the development of local democracy,for instance, by strengthening bottom-up civic initiatives; participation stimulates integrationof local communities through joint activities. It is also an efficient tool to solve certain problems, sinceopinions of all parties concerned can be heard, local conflicts mitigated and compromise reached. This article attempts to analyze citizen participation based on the example of a specific social group,namely the rural local community. The article concentrates on various theoretical views on the issue.The main goal of the article is to answer a question about the form of local rural communities participation,and it presents examples of instruments which help community members to implement theiractivity and express civic attitudes.

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