ABSTRACT
Conflict management or resolution in a participatory democracy must be undertaken in a manner which is compatible with the retention of full-scale noninvidious participation of actor-agent citizens; and the retention of deliberative processes which capitalize upon the emerging reflective capacities of such citizens. The task of resolving and adjudicating political conflict as a continuing political function has been inadequately dealt with by the ism-ideologists. Participatory democrats proceed on the assumption that, with instructive conditions, recognition will develop of the often necessary priority of a community and its continuity over transient wants and private interests. The development of an institutional structure to facilitate the resolution and adjudication of political conflict which meets the conditions just cited and which avoids the often undemocratic views of the ism-ideologists is no simple and transient matter. The legislative role in political-conflict resolution arises from the legislature's nearly unique opportunity and responsibility to determine the form and timing of conflictual issues brought forward for consideration.
