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Since it is impossible for everyone to take a hand in running the country, the people elect representatives to act on their behalf, such as the members of the House of Representatives and municipal councils.
The Netherlands is a parliamentary democracy. Media Inquiries: cce civiced. Website: www. How Can Citizens Participate? Terms to Know citizen alien Who is a citizen? Problem solving Examining participation The Founders believed that the main purpose of government was to protect people's basic rights.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each form of participation that is listed? Are all these forms of participation equally important in protecting our basic rights? Why or why not? Which seem the most important? Ways citizens can participate looking for information in newspapers, magazines, and reference materials and judging its accuracy voting in local, state, and national elections participating in a political discussion trying to persuade someone to vote a certain way signing a petition wearing a button or putting a sticker on the car writing letters to elected representatives contributing money to a party or candidate attending meetings to gain information, discuss issues, or lend support campaigning for a candidate lobbying for laws that are of special interest demonstrating through marches, boycotts, sit-ins, or other forms of protest serving as a juror running for office holding public office serving the country through military or other service disobeying laws and taking the consequences to demonstrate that a law or policy is unjust Should citizens participate?
Some of these are: the purpose of our government how important your rights are to you how satisfied you are with the way the government is working. About This site is brought to you by the Center for Civic Education. Subscribe to Newsletter. We use cookies to improve your experience on our website.
By browsing this website, you agree to our use of cookies. Read more about our Privacy Policy. I accept. The idea of government as protector requires taxes to fund, train and equip an army and a police force; to build courts and jails; and to elect or appoint the officials to pass and implement the laws citizens must not break.
Regarding foreign threats, government as protector requires the ability to meet and treat with other governments as well as to fight them. This minimalist view of government is clearly on display in the early days of the American Republic, comprised of the President, Congress, Supreme Court and departments of Treasury, War, State and Justice. The concept of government as provider comes next: government as provider of goods and services that individuals cannot provide individually for themselves.
Government in this conception is the solution to collective action problems, the medium through which citizens create public goods that benefit everyone, but that are also subject to free-rider problems without some collective compulsion. The basic economic infrastructure of human connectivity falls into this category: the means of physical travel, such as roads, bridges and ports of all kinds, and increasingly the means of virtual travel, such as broadband.
All of this infrastructure can be, and typically initially is, provided by private entrepreneurs who see an opportunity to build a road, say, and charge users a toll, but the capital necessary is so great and the public benefit so obvious that ultimately the government takes over. A more expansive concept of government as provider is the social welfare state: government can cushion the inability of citizens to provide for themselves, particularly in the vulnerable conditions of youth, old age, sickness, disability and unemployment due to economic forces beyond their control.
As the welfare state has evolved, its critics have come to see it more as a protector from the harsh results of capitalism, or perhaps as a means of protecting the wealthy from the political rage of the dispossessed.
At its best, however, it is providing an infrastructure of care to enable citizens to flourish socially and economically in the same way that an infrastructure of competition does. It provides a social security that enables citizens to create their own economic security. The future of government builds on these foundations of protecting and providing. Government will continue to protect citizens from violence and from the worst vicissitudes of life.
Government will continue to provide public goods, at a level necessary to ensure a globally competitive economy and a well-functioning society. But wherever possible, government should invest in citizen capabilities to enable them to provide for themselves in rapidly and continually changing circumstances.
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