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Volgens een recent artikel in the Economist zijn we een "flawed democracy":
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Global democracy has a very bad year
The pandemic caused an unprecedented rollback of democratic freedoms in 2020www.economist.com
Ik kan het volledige artikel niet lezen, dus ik weet niet waarom wij bv. slechter scoren dan het VK of Spanje, maar dit soort zaken zou daar wel voor kunnen zorgen.
Dit is een artikel van 2017 over die Economist Democracy Index en waarom België daar als 'flawed democracy' scoort.
Membership of political parties is low (4.85% of the electorate in 2010 according to one study) and free adhesion to civil society NGOs –excluding those pertaining to party pillars– is far from popular. The degree of interest for politics, here tested with public-opinion surveys like the World Values Survey and Eurobarometer, takes a toll on Belgium’s standing. The proportion of people ready to attend lawful demonstrations, or following political news daily is not enough. Finally, election turnout is seen as an important signal… except when vote is mandatory, as is the case in Belgium. A recent poll nonetheless found 36% of Belgian respondents would be as happy without voting rights.
Democracy has been hijacked away from people. Confronting real issues has slowly been put off-limits and the policy debate has been confiscated by politicians. So The Economist says, and so do we. This dysfunction can lead citizens to seemingly act against their own interest in a move to dislodge ruling elites, as was dramatically witnessed with Brexit and Donald Trump’s election. In front of such direct threat to democracy, the right answer for politicians is not to edict the crowds can’t be trusted to make sensible choices. The right answer is exactly opposite: give in to widespread people participation in policy-making
Citizen participation in Belgium: flawed or flourishing?
Three years ago, Belgium had a problem with citizen participation. Where does the country stand today? In full transition, so it seems.
www.citizenlab.co
edit: deze shockeert me nog het meest: "A recent poll nonetheless found 36% of Belgian respondents would be as happy without voting rights.". Fucking hell ..
edit2: ook de 2020 versie gevonden:
Citizen participation in Belgium: flawed or flourishing?
Three years ago, Belgium had a problem with citizen participation. Where does the country stand today? In full transition, so it seems.
www.citizenlab.co



