The best and the safest way to achieve successful and sustainable patterns to ensure citizen participation is through structured and institutionalized mechanisms. Therefore, this section aims at emphasizing the institutionalized mechanisms for citizen participation. Mechanisms of civic participation and development of direct democracy are oultined in a separate chapter...

Citizens should have the right to give opinions, to express their dissatisfaction and to debate the priorities of the municipality. Significant participation empowers citizens to make decisions but also to accept decisions made by those who represent them. Participation means cooperation. Municipalities should stop discrimination. In this regard, the rights pertaining to...