Tools and models to improve democracy: simulation, gaming-simulation and new technologies
- There is democracy and democracy
- Participation is possible at many levels and it doesn't entail direct democracy
- In any case pacta sunt servanda
- Participation is a serious thing, not a tinsel
- Participation has to be done in the right way
- There are irreducible conflicts
- New Technologies do help (when they are not just a fetch)
- Games are usually effective as active communication, learning and negotiation devices
