Participatory
Participatory adjective - Affording the opportunity for individual participation.
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Representative and participatory are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Representative" instead an adjective "Participatory".
Representative
Representative adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.
Participatory and representative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Participatory" instead an adjective "Representative".
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- Today we would distinguish between what's called "representative democracy" (in their view a small elites, who owe their election to popular vote, but once in power Sell Out and serve the hegemony) and participatory or direct democracy in a voluntary form.
Source: Democracy Is Bad - Politically, most forms of anarchism support replacing the nation-state and representative democracy with a free federation of self-governing communities and direct democracy mainly organised through local networks of participatory, face-to-face, neighborhood assemblies.
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