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Evaluates the success of public participation and the contextual and procedural factors that lead to it. This book demonstrates that public participation has not only improved environmental policy, but it has also played an important educational role and has helped resolve the conflict and mistrust that often plague environmental issues.

The Democratic Audit of the UK is the latest, most comprehensive schema designed to measure the extent of democracy in a country. However, like its predecessors, it fails to say anything on another area of recent interest: the representation of specific groups, or a "politics of presence." Using New Zealand & the position of Maori as an example, the ability of the Democratic Audit to detect discontent based on the political voice of a group is examined here. Finding that, while some of the criteria are sensitive to symptoms of Maori discontent, none taps the underlying feeling. New criteria are suggested. 1 Table. Adapted from the source document.