Lack of participation by local communities in democratic processes

Political, cultural and economic boundaries inhibit local representatives from playing a significant role in the decision-making of the larger societies of which they are a part.

1. Reluctance to join in community action
2. Lack of participation in development
3. Ineffective decision-making processes
4. Deficient social planning
5. Collapse of corporate engagement in society

1. Monopolization by interest groups in development of community priorities
2. Lack of participation in local welfare programmes
3. Lack of grassroots involvement in economic planning
4. Ineffectiveness of individual participation in large communities

1. Failure to adapt general initiatives to specific needs
2. Failure of remedial action plans

1. Self-conception of ethical void
2. Refusal to participate
3. Parochial preoccupation with community problems
4. Ineffectiveness of democratic consultation procedures
5. Inadequate grass-roots initiative
6. Inadequate access of indigenous peoples to international decision-making processes
7. Disillusionment with democracy

1. Participating as local communities in democratic processes
2. Monitoring public participation in national environmental action plans
3. Involving local populations
4. Including local populations in solutions to problems
5. Fostering popular participation in development
6. Addressing failure to include local populations in solutions to problems
7. Abstaining from participation by local communities in democratic processes

1. Underparticipation
2. Undemocratic
3. Problem
4. Participation
5. Nonparticipatory
6. Nonlocal
7. Lack
8. Failure