"Participative" democracy

"After experimenting with participative democracy in my region, I became convinced that citizens are often experts and can contribute to solve problems". Feel there is something wrong with this sentence? (What form of democracy do you know that's not "participative"?) It's signed by Segolène Royal (picture left), the front-runner for the socialist nomination in next year's French presidential election. She is trying to develop her program/platform online, "participatively", through a website called "Désir d'avenir" ("Longing for a future") where she posts drafts of her ideas and lets people comment on them. The resulting synthesis "of the ideas that I deem feasible will be published on the site, so that your contributions will be fruitful"...

José Luis Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, is testing the online waters too: PSOEtv (where PSOE is the acronym for the Spanish socialist - majority - party), which is arguably Europe's first online TV channel by a major political party, just launched. It has immediately been nicknamed "Telezapatero" and the first show featured the Prime Minister stating that the aim of PSOEtv is to "inform the citizens and let them participate in the government's actions". The participation bit is not clear though: all there is is a button saying "your comments", which takes users to an e-mail form.