The Feasibility of Participatory Democracy —Examination of the Influence of the Phenomenon of Registration to Parties in Israel on the Level of the Citizen’s Political Participation

Abstract

Joining a political party (and thus acquiring the right to vote of a far more restricted group for representatives in the Parliament) greatly increases the political power of the single person or an organized group of people and implements participatory democracy in a restricted forum in which the opinions of every citizen have significant political power (with emphasis on the organized groups). The moment of a person is a part of a far more restricted group with great influence, and then his political power increases and his voice during elections has greater importance.