Democracy and Small States

This is the report of the Commonwealth Workshop on Democracy and Small States which took place in Valletta, Malta, from 10-12 May 2000.

The workshop participants - government ministers, parliamentarians, diplomats, public servants, academics, electoral officials and figures in civil society from thirty-two Commonwealth countries - discussed key aspects of the democratic process in small states including the roles of the executive and the legislature, mechanisms for scrutiny, accountability and oversight, sovereignty and democracy and the culture of democracy.

The workshop was the fourth in the Commonwealth Secretariat's Deepening Democracy series and was jointly organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, in co-operation with the Government of Malta. 

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