Definition
Microdemocracy: individual citizens using essential democratic skills to participate effectively in their encounters with public agencies.
The Microdemocracy Strategy has three key components:
- Recognize the democratic significance and potential of the public terrain where millions of individual citizens come face to face with public agencies.
- Teach simple and powerful skills for focusing on decisions and formulating questions that can lead to more effective participation in decision-making.
- Tap into an already existing workforce of several million frontline workers who can teach the skills to the tens of millions of people with whom they work.
The Microdemocracy Strategy can help produce more examples of Microdemocracy and make it possible for far more citizens to take action on their own behalf, on behalf of their families and their communities. It will also help build a constituency ready and able to expect and require accountable decision-making.