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Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development: Contemporary Analysis and Case Studies
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Deliberative Democracy, Global Green Information System and Spirituality Dora Marinova*, Vladislav Todorov† and Amzad Hossain‡ *Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Curtin University, Australia † University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria ‡ School of Sustainability, Murdoch University, Australia
Abstract Good governance is a prerequisite for a transition toward a more sustainable development. Within western democracy, governance is understood either as a management function or as a leadership role played by the government, politicians, business, academics, not-for-profit and community organizations or just particular individuals within civil society. More recently, this top–down approach has been challenged by the newly emerging methods of deliberative democracy which entrust the power of decision-making to randomly selected representatives of the public following intensive processes of deliberation. The role of experts in the process is to inform the deliberations, and the role of the traditional structures of power within society is to implement the outcomes from the deliberations. Information availability is a serious condition for the potential of deliberative democracy to be fulfilled. Within the climate change imperatives, the focus of information delivery should be on allowing for a global picture to be created as the basis for individual localized decision-making. Based on the unprecedented power of computer and 47
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