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Dekker calls for more direct democracy

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Periodic.com Professor Paul Dekker has participated on Monday March 14 as a speaker at the second session of the lecture "Democracy today: the reasons and emotions in the democratic life" organized by the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the University Jaume I de Castellón.

Leading Dutch researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research presented during the conference some of the most recent data on the position that European citizens now take of the democratic system and against politicians. Dekker

showed the results of surveys indicate that at present some samples are consolidated concern and contradictory in terms of existing views among the citizenry. Some opinions indicate, on the one hand, massive support for the democratic system as the best system of government, but, on the other hand, indicate a growing disinterest in political issues and positioning against its political representatives.

Dekker has argued that the negative appreciation of citizens towards politics is due in part to the impression that this is presented in an overly complicated in the eyes of citizens and shown too far from their interests and real concerns. Two reviews of citizens that lead them away from politics and pushing that in many European countries, non-democratic positions taken such as the belief that authoritarian leaders can improve the situation.

Once submitted any data, the session focused on trying to answer a key question: "What can be done to improve relations between citizens and politicians and how to maximize the potential of good citizenship? ". Dekker, and tried to answer this question based on the need to recognize that national politics should be more than spectators in a democracy where citizens can not participate structurally in the game. "

In his view, some key measures to achieve this goal are to make policy more exciting, in reinforcing the elements of direct democracy, strengthening the discursive formation of policy and, finally, to give more space to society civil. Measures that require the strong commitment of the politicians but also the consolidation of a vigilant citizenry and expectant policy in heterogeneous areas and issues.