From Partition To Inclusion "Citizen" Gendership I

This book is dedicated to "citizen" gendership in sustainable politics from partition toinclusion. Although citizen participation is regarded widely as vital to democracy, somewariness may also be observed towards it in cases where democracy is equated withrepresentative democracy. Citizen participation is seen mainly as an instrument tostrengthen and support the way representative democracy now works. A good democracyshould enable citizens to optimize their political resources. Thus, we gave a start to thisbook with a question stemming from this understanding: Could sustainable developmentand public participation become an inclusive model of democracy? Then, we tried toexplore what democracy is through "citizen" gendership in sustainable politics frompartition to inclusion.