The main purpose of a participation system is to get good, practicable, efficient, comprehensible solutions which are based on a broad consensus in the target group.
In the process of this work mutual understanding and trust emerge. These are only two of many positive side-effects.
There are more advantages in the characteristics of our systems, including:
- direct and unprejudiced dialogue
- factual work and solutions
- well thought-out results
- thorough elaboration and deliberation
- realism
- differentiated suggestions
- collective recommendations, not just individual opinions added up
- "representativeness": the "silent majority" takes part
- overcoming of individual interest and concentration on the common good
- targeted work
- credibility
- freedom from manipulation
- transparency
- documentation
