...eventually come to feel little or no conflict between the demands of the public and private spheres. Once the participatory system is established, and...individual citizen participates the better able he is to do so. The human results that accrue through the participatory process provide an important justification...

...credibility which they cutrenrly do not have. Once participatory sysrems are strengthened, they become self-sustaining because 'the very qualities that are required of individual citizens if the sysrem is to work successfully are those that the process of participation irself fosrers and develops'...

...for, and even harmful to, only her theory. Finally, Pateman suggests that the participatory system is self-sustaining "because the very qualities that are...process of participation itself develops and fosters" (1970, p. 25). tutorial, patriotic, and religious. Thus it may not be self-sustaining at all. How does...

...participate in politics. For example, Pateman argues that: Once the participatory system is established ... it becomes selfsustaining because the very qualities...more the individual citizen participates, the better he is able to do so. The human results that accrue through the participatory process provide an important...

...are the result, not the cause, of nonparticipation: "Once the participatory system is established ... it becomes self-sustaining because the very qualities...individual citizen participates the better able he is to do so."18 A second criticism is that the kind of democracy envisioned by the theory is impossible because...