Decentralization of power is essential to improve democracy. Assume when a dictator governs a country, decisions are made in top-down without respecting public opinions. Even though democracy is more respecting citizens’ opinions, it is not working enough.
In the case of recent Okinawan referendum, even though “72%” of Okinawan people voted was against the landfill in Henoko[1], the government is continuing to stick to their plan. The government doesn’t reflect the public opinion enough.
In order to reflect citizens’ opinions, we need to introduce systems which enables us to make a proposition, gathers the voices, and be authorized to reflect in public. For example, the citizens’ initiative referendum (= le referendum d’initiative citoyenne whose acronym is RIC) which the Yellow vests demonstrators claims in their movement is an option (I am thinking about writing this type of referendum in another article). I think this is decentralization in a way that it allows people to have chance to reflect their opinions based on their opinions.
At present, people can express their voice on the Internet. The scale of influence depends on each person, but the capacity of spreading one’s own voice is not just limited to the government or the media, each citizen have the power.
Like above, the power is decentralized, or in some cases generated among citizens after the emergence of the Internet.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/japanese/47366904 Accessed 27 May 2019
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