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- عملية سياتل أو طريقة سياتل هو مصطلح نابع من الإجراءات السياسية في سياتل ومقاطعة كينغ، ومدن أخرى بدرجة أقل وحكومة ولاية واشنطن. لا يوجد لهذا المصطلح تعريفًا محددًا ولكنه يشير إلى عملية بطيئة الانتشار من الحوار، والتشاور، والمشاركة، وتأمل المستوى المحلي قبل اتخاذ أي قرار والوقت المستغرق لوضع أي سياسة. وهناك تعريف قديم منذ عام 1983 قد ورد في افتتاحية صحيفة سياتل الأسبوعية، «عملية سياتل المعتادة لالتماس الموافقة من خلال الاستهلاك». (ar)
- The Seattle process or Seattle way is a term stemming from the political procedure in Seattle and King County, and to a lesser extent other cities and the Washington state government. The term has no strict definition but refers to the pervasively slow process of dialogue, deliberation, participation, and municipal introspection before making any decision and the time it takes to enact any policy. An early definition came from a 1983 editorial in the Seattle Weekly, "the usual Seattle process of seeking consensus through exhaustion." "In its positive connotation the Seattle Way values popular participation, transparent process and meaningful debate. More negatively, it has been decried as a culture that values process and debate over results, that bogs down and can't get important things done."—Mark Purcell, Recapturing Democracy. "The Seattle Way usually is defined as circular consultation reaching indecision. But it also consists of an uninvolved electorate and public decisions taken carelessly, without regard for experience elsewhere and unmindful of consequence."—Ted Van Dyk, contributing columnist to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle process, and claimed devotion to it, has been an issue in political races. In the 2001 Mayoral Election candidate Greg Nickels used devotion to Seattle process as an issue against his opponent, city attorney Mark Sidran, who promised a more decisive style. However, eight years later Nickels' style as Mayor would be criticized in a re-election race as top-down, autocratic, and antithetical to the Seattle process. (en)
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