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%DEMANDS VS PROCESS 771112
People often make demands that specified conditions
be met, but do not offer the process by which the
conditions can be met. Even unanimous agreement that the
specified conditions be met is not enough to fulfill them.
Some process must be developed through which the
conditions can be met. Agreeing that a bridge should
exist across a river does not put the bridge in place. The
process of constructing the proper bridge in the proper
place is an essential part of fulfilling the specified
conditions.
The process of decision making is in some ways like
building the bridge over the river. Demands that fair
decisions be made will not occasion fair decisions in the
absence of a process which is of such a nature as to
occasion fair decisions. It is futile to lecture people
to fulfill their responsibility to be fair, in the absence
of a process which encourages them to be fair; just as
it is futile to lecture people to place a bridge over the
river. The person who provides the appropriate process is
often far more helpful than the person who delivers the
ringing speech presenting the demands that specified
conditions be met. The speech will not occasion the
fulfillment. Yet, in some instances the appropriate
process will naturally promote the fulfillment of the
conditions it was designed to fulfill.
The democratic process is something quite different
than the set of decisions it is designed to promote. There
are other ways of achieving the same set of decisions--but
such achievements are not democratic and do not fulfill
the conditions which the democratic process fulfills when
it arrives at the same decisions. It is thus essential to
recognize the important independent role of a political
process.
Priority setting is one of the most important of
political processes. It is futile to tell small groups of
empowered political leaders to set priorities in
accordance with the will of the large numbers of people
who elected the few political leaders--without at the same
time providing the leaders with information about what the
priorities of the electorate is. It is impossible to
inform the leaders of the electorate's priorities without
first asking them what their many major priorities are.
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