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Geredigeerd citaat uit Colin Crouch – vet toegevoegd (2004:112,113) Post-Democracy > > > > Politicians in many countries are becoming alarmed at growing voter apathy and declining membership in parties. This is the interesting paradox of the political class. It wants as much as possible to exclude the mass of citizens from becoming actively involved in probing its secrets, organizing oppositional activities, disturbing the tight control exercised by the politico-business ellipse. But it desperately wants us to offer passive support; it dreads the possibility that we might lose interest in its activities, fail to vote for it, give no money to its parties, ignore it.
If it is worried about declining party membership, it runs marketing campaigns to encourage supporters to take out membership subscriptions, but it does little to ensure that membership is an attractive and worthwhile activity.
Philippe Schmitter (2002) has made a number of highly imaginative and adventurous proposals for strengthening substantive participation, which address this issue far more effectively than the standard themes that emerge from established political organizations. For example, instead of the state funding of political parties commonly used in many European countries, where the money is divided among parties according to the outcome of the last general election, Schmitter proposes a direct democracy approach.
A small fixed sum of every citizen’s annual tax liability would be assigned to a political party chosen yearly by the citizen him- or herself; he proposes a similar approach to the funding of pressure groups and interest associations.
Even more radically, he proposes the institution of a Citizens’ assembly: a combination of ancient Greek democracy, the concept of jury service used in the law courts of Anglophone countries, and contemporary Swiss direct democracy. < < < <
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Philippe C. Schmitter (2018): Post-Liberal’ Democracy: A Sketch Of The Possible Future? Istituto Universitario Europeo – February 2018