The endurance of a country relies upon the good its leadership can apply as a powerful influence for the citizens of the country. No nation is guaranteed continuous existence if her citizens suffer from servile neediness particularly if such a country is recognized as having the potential human and material assets that guarantee greatness.
Below we cover ways of improving Nigeria’s democracy system base on case studies.
1. Participatory budgets
Here’s the idea: participatory budgets require local engagement in deciding how a city should spend money, both in creating a city-wide budget and monitoring. This combines open assemblies with representative bodies.
2. Citizens’ Initiative Review
A direct democracy technique born in the United States and now adopted in Switzerland and Finland.
CIRs mostly recruit panelists who are trained in dialogue and deliberation techniques, before hearing from advocates on both sides of an issue. They can turn to independent experts for help, and rely on voting or consensus-building techniques to reach conclusions.
3. Representative population samples
A mechanism designed to deliberate issues and recommend policy responses, also known variously as “mini publics” or citizens’ panels.
Representative population samples are similar in design to citizens’ juries, but mini publics typically tackle more complex issues, often at larger scale – national government, or even global issues – with outcomes that can be more impactful than advisory statements for voters.
4. Taiwan, crowdsourced democracy
An evolving experiment in crowdsourced democracy, which aims to engage the entire society in open consultation on policy issues.
Innovations in people power are changing how government decisions are made, from Brazil to Kenya, Switzerland and Taiwan.
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