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An important feature of democracies is that citizens can engage their Governments in dialogues about policies. They tend to do so in one of three ways: they may seek a justification of some policy or action; they may object to all or some aspects of a policy; or they may make policy proposals of their own.
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Bench-Capon, T. (2013). Structuring E-Participation in Policy Making through Argumentation. In: Decker, H., Lhotská, L., Link, S., Basl, J., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40285-2_2
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