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Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi, Ph.D.:
“System preservationist methods of political participation consist of those forms of conventional politics designed to perpetuate the existing political system. They include voting, campaign activity, particularized contacting, and community activity.343 The system deconstructionist methods of political participation includes those activities designed to evaluate the political system and designate system defects and to develop mass consciousness. The methods incorporate written political communications issued through electronic and paper sources, such as scholarly writings, editorials, opinion pieces and other works of system iconoclasts and verbal political communications including speeches, electronic media interviews and presentations.
Next, system reconstructionist methods are utilized. These are nonviolent civil disobedience and violent methods of political participation, which rest on mass mobilization of resources, and intends to rectify the system defects and restructure the
system so that socioeconomic and political egalitarian principles may be practically instituted. The last method is system constructionist forms of political participation, which intends to counter the counteractive forces, which arise to prevent system reconstruction and to protect and extend the human, social, civil and political rights garnered, while remaining oriented to towards the perpetuation of the collective welfare. System constructionist methods incorporate all of the forms of political participation listed in the previous three methods.”343 Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie, Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality
(New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1972)
