Page 223 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

Public Service – The term ‘public service’ refers broadly to the entities that exist and people employed for public purpose.The public sector service all arms of government – including the ‘executive’ arm (the Government of the day), the ‘legislature’ (Parliament) and the ‘judiciary’ (judges of the various courts). Remit – this is the question or task being given to citizens. It should be expressed simply so anyone casually looking at it can see the problem which needs to be solved. Sociograms – A graphic representation of the links or views held by an individual or a group. In group work, a sociogram can be used with really people standing in designated areas to perform the representation of links or spread of views. For example, standing on a 1-5 scale of for or against an idea. A group can distribute themselves along the line and get a visual representation of the views of the room much faster than asking everyone one-by-one. Stratification – A method of selection that ensuring that proportional numbers of subpopulations (according to gender, age, location, and so forth) can be randomly selected in a way that mirrors the wider population. 221