Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions - and ideally exert influence - regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions. Participatory decision making can take place along any realm of human social activity, including economic (i.e. participatory economics), political (i.e. participatory democracy or parpolity), management (i.e. participatory management), cultural (i.e. intercommunalism) or familial (i.e. feminism).

For well-informed participation to occur, it is argued that some version of transparency, e.g. radical transparency, is necessary, but not sufficient. It has also been argued that those most affected by a decision should have the most say while those least affected would have the least say (SOURCE NEEDED).

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Can you give me a GOOD definition for Participatory Paradigm, please?
Q. Can you give me a GOOD definition for Participatory Paradigm, please?
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A. A paradigm is a model of something, so a participatory paradigm is one in which someone works on figuring out the model.
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which type of elections do you think promotes a participatory government more?
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Will the popularity of socialist participatory democracies in South America spread to Central America next?
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