Public participation and the politics of humiliation
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...Without a real redistribution of decision-making power aimed at including disadvantaged groups, public participation in South Africa would indeed constitute in most instances what Arnstein (1969) referred to as manipulation....
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...(Webler & Renn, 1995) This use of professional consultants is referred to as the scientisation of the political where power shifts from accountable authorities to technical experts....
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...This signifies the fact that planners, bureaucrats and politicians create an illusion of participation while they move forward believing that their knowledge of strategic and tactical steps makes them responsible for their finalisation (Rowe & Frewer, 2004)....
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...It is the quest to create what Margalit (1998) called the ‘Decent Society’, i.e. one in which the values of equality, social justice and democracy become a lived experience within a human rights culture or one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority and whose citizens…...
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