Types of Democracy
- Created by: Lucy.payne
- Created on: 05-12-18 20:07
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- Types of Democracy
- Direct Democracy
- The people themselves make the key decisions
- Issues
- Specialist knowledge is required
- Discrimination
- Impractical
- Today
- Referndums
- Focus groups
- E-peititions
- Advantages
- The people’s voice is clearly heard
- Avoid deadlock
- Great legitimacy
- Representative Democracy
- The people elect or choose representatives who make political decisions on their behalf
- Advantages
- Representatives are more likely to make rational decisions
- Mediate conflicting interests
- Accountable
- More knowledge than general public
- Issues
- Corruption
- Poor representation of minorities
- Decisions are made in Westminster
- Direct Democracy
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