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Popular Participation – Meaning, Importance and Modes

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Popular participation can be defined as the active involvement of citizens in the socio-political activities of a country. It can also be seen as the practice of involving the citizens in the governance of their country and in deciding important socio-cultural, political and economic matters.

Popular participation gives unrestricted equal opportunities to all citizens in expressing their views towards the activities of the state.

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Importance of Popular Participation

  • Popular participation promotes political awareness and education.
  • It fosters political stability.
  • It promotes self-fulfillment and satisfaction of citizens
  • It enhances development.
  • It ensures responsive and responsible government.
  • It promotes popular consciousness.
  • It creates greater opportunities for citizens.
  • It enhance confidence of the people to hold government accountable.
  • It improves the quality of governance.
  • It influences the direction of government policies.
  • It enhances collective effort in the development of the political system.
  • It promotes a sense of belonging among the people.
  • It ensures every member of the society is carried along in the process of development.
  • It ensures equity in the allocation of societal resources.
  • It enables people to gain socio-economic and political power.

Modes of Popular Participation

  1. Direct/face to face popular participation: This is the form of popular participation which requires the direct or face to face presence of the citizens in political issues
  2. Indirect popular participation: This is the form of popular participation that does not involve face to face but involve sending opinions, suggestion and participating through phone calls via television and radio.
  3. Traditional mode of popular participation: This is the mode of using local traditional leaders to promote politics; it is a mode which allows room for physical participation like the face to face mode of participation.
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11 Comments

  1. Imo essiet Reply
    February 15, 2017 at 5:42 pm

    What happen during the state of emergency?

    • Admin Reply
      February 15, 2017 at 5:50 pm

      Emergencies can happen in any place, which can be due to internal conflicts, external aggression, or even due to natural disasters. Under the International Law, rights and freedoms can be suspended under the emergency provision.

    • okpako godswill Reply
      March 29, 2017 at 11:31 pm

      emergency can limit the rule of law

  2. maxwell Reply
    October 25, 2017 at 10:00 am

    what are the advantages of direct/face to face popular participation

  3. Sheriff Hassan Abubakar Reply
    April 11, 2018 at 7:15 am

    what is hate speech

  4. Abubakar Abdullahi Reply
    August 26, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    what are advantages and disadvantages of popular participation

    • olamide precious Reply
      February 23, 2019 at 4:09 am

      popular participation is about social justice and legitimacy

  5. Charles coker Reply
    September 19, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    Quite a great article. Just place more emphasis on the modes of popular participation

  6. olamide precious Reply
    February 23, 2019 at 4:12 am

    Federation has to do with coming together Of more ethics, social and political groups.

  7. jerry Reply
    June 6, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    explain in five ways how to achieve popular participation

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