Majestic said that the changes would ensure a unified approach, 'standardise bonus potential and measurement across the group' and ensure 'democratic participation benefiting all employees'.

These governments, he said, had hugely expanded services and democratic participation.

It also deprives many young adults of any democratic participation through the ballot box until well past completion of their university education, often after marriage and parenthood.

Her work also explores popular culture and the politics of public pedagogy with respect to critical democratic participation.

All these factors present the challenges that e-democracy presents, while trying to obtain a greater democratic participation and awareness.