Undemocratic policy-making


  • Non-corporate decision making
  • Insider policy-making
  • Policy-making conspiracy
  • Unrepresentative policy makers
  • Undemocratic government decision-making
  • Restricted access to policy formulation processes
  • Lack of organized participation
  • Non-participative decision-making
  • Exclusion from participation in decision-making
  • Inequitable decision making
  • Political exclusion

Incidence

There was no proper public discussion, not even a congressional discussion, of the presidential decision to send US Marines into Somalia in 1992. The decision was executed within a few days and most Americans heard about it on the television news.

Claim

  1. There is a need for long-range planning to meet not only current policy requirements, but also the future implications of present decisions and policies. At present public agencies are no longer representative of the broad and varied populations they are supposed to serve. Policy making is seen as the responsibility of a few specialists, who consider the interests of only certain segments of the population. Consequently, policy decisions are made by few people with little accountability to local communities or the population at large.

  2. The 'we' of administrations and supra-regional agencies is a solemn but contourless amoeba (Ivan Illich).

Aggravated by

  1. Undermining of multilateral forums
  2. Unadapted community structures
  3. Social isolation
  4. Shortage of time for appropriate policy making
  5. Restrictive organizational participation
  6. Restrictive effects of tradition-bound community decision-making
  7. Restricted opportunity for community activity
  8. Proliferation of public sector institutions
  9. Policy-making bias
  10. Messianic image of leadership
  11. Lack of systems for achieving grassroots agreement
  12. Interlocking corporate directorates
  13. Inadequate models of socio-economic development
  14. Inability of elected representatives to process feedback from constituents
  15. Fragmented decision-making
  16. Deficient social planning
  17. Decline in civic participation
  18. Complex government regulations
  19. Centralized decisions on local technological innovation
  20. Authoritarian regimes
  21. Arrogance of intergovernmental agencies
  22. Abdication of responsibility on achieving political office


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