Language: English
the basic unit of decision making in an inclusive democracy is the demotic assembly ie the assembly of demos the citizen body in a given geographical area which may encompass a town and the surrounding villages or even neighbourhoods of large cities this is very close to the concept of the urban village proposed today by supporters of de-growth economics however apart from local decisions many important decisions are to be made at the regional or confederal level this is why as serge latouche observes the aim of inclusive democracy "presupposes a confederation of demoi" made up of small homogenous units of around  people therefore an inclusive democracy today can only take the form of a confederal democracy that is based on a network of administrative councils whose members or delegates are elected from popular face-to-face democratic assemblies in the various demoi thus their role is purely administrative and practical not one of policy-making like that of representatives in representative democracy