User:Oberst/Bottom-up democracy

Phrases such as "bottom-up democracy" or "democracy from the bottom up" are used in a variety of contexts.


 * Most often, they indicate an emphasis on local issues and involvement, grassroots democracy, or other sorts of activism within or parallel to an existing system of governance.


 * They may also be applied to specific groups such as the modern Zapatistas in Mexico, or in the context of such movements as council communism or workers' councils, or the early history of soviet democracy. Proponents of certain forms of anarchism may also use the bottom-up phrasing.


 * "Bottom-up" may also be used to refer to various theoretical proposals for a type of representative democracy. A distinguishing characteristic of these proposals is selection of representatives at a local level, with these representatives in turn selecting members for a higher level entity; this process repeats to an arbitrary number of levels, with an attempt to keep decisions and authority at the lowest practical level.

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[Category:Democracy]