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Dear Ruzmanci, I hope to have discovered why you have completely cancelled the term "democratic control". In my mother tongue, italian, "controllare" means "to monitor", while in english to control has a more active meaning than simply watching what happens. Thus I should have written "democratic monitoring" instead of "democratic control".

So do you think is the following acceptable?


 * ==democratic monitoring==
 * All democratic constitutions explicitly state or imply that the power belongs to the people (popular sovereignty). They also state that the people delegate their power to some representatives which temporarily rule the country in behalf of the people. People's temporary representatives are choosen by means of elections. Democratic monitoring is the monitoring that the people exercise over their representatives to check how they get and use the power. Without democratic monitoring democracy may easily degenerate into oligarchy or dictatorship. For democratic monitoring to be possible, institutions must have open and understandable decision-making processes (transparency) and must permit access to documents (openness). Secrecy and hidden decision-making undermine democracy. A very important role in democratic monitoring is played by media, thus a real independence of media from politics is widely thought to be vital for any democracy.

The few sentences before the definition of democratic monitoring are written to stress why the people has the right to monitor what's going on in any public institution. We can find a way to merge your new section "Popular sovereignty" with my text above. I refer to Media as a way to make public the decisions and the acts of the ruling government which otherwise would be not noticed by common people and thus couldn't be monitored by them. Lele 08:42, 19 August 2005 (UTC) (talk)

Roger J. jumps in and says:

Transparent democracy is not only a right to see what is happening inside the authorities, the citizens also have the right to get involved and influence in different ways. By writing emails or articles in the local newspaper, by organising an opinion, by lobbying and by talking to the elected persons who vote in the board of the authority. By demonstrating outside the town hall when they vote on a certain issue.

The authority is obligated to give all interested persons access to all information they need to follow an issue and influence its decision, just like a district attorney must inform the defendants lawyer about everything which could be of interest for the defence.

Internet has simplified this a lot, as authorities can put out all information on a web site, and the visitors can serve themselves in most cases.

So the word here should be "control", not monitoring. The people should be in control of the democratic process, that is reason why control is the right word.

The people, and media, have full access to the democratic process and people are also able to influence and control the democracy, not only once every four years but every day.

Roger J. (sorry for writing on your talk page without invitation, but you can easily delete whatever you don't like on your own talk page)

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