Politics
- Created by: Lakisha Gravell
- Created on: 31-10-14 03:11
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- Referendums
- Against
- For
- Political education: widening opportunity for political participation, referendums help create better informed, more educated and politically engaged electorate.
- Direct democracy: gives general public direct & unmediated control over government decision making
- For
- Political education: widening opportunity for political participation, referendums help create better informed, more educated and politically engaged electorate.
- For
- Responsive government: force government to be more responsible by forcing them to listen to public opinion between elections. Allows public opinion to be expressed on a particular view.
- Direct democracy: gives general public direct & unmediated control over government decision making
- Direct democracy: gives general public direct & unmediated control over government decision making
- Reduced government power: provides check on government power - government has less control over their outcome than it does parliament.
- Responsive government: force government to be more responsible by forcing them to listen to public opinion between elections. Allows public opinion to be expressed on a particular view.
- Responsive government: force government to be more responsible by forcing them to listen to public opinion between elections. Allows public opinion to be expressed on a particular view.
- Constitutional change: constitutional change should be popularly endorsed via referendums because constitutional rules affect the way the country is governed.
- Ill informed decisions: compared to politicians, general public are ill informed, poorly educated and lacks political experience. Public interest best safe guarded by a system of 'government by politicians' rather than any form of popular 'self-government'
- Against
- Weakens parliament: referendums don't strengthen democracy, substitutes direct democracy for parliamentary democracy. Undermines vital principle of parliamentary sovereignty but also means that decisions not made on basis of careful deliberation and debate.
- Irresponsible government: allows governments to absolve themselves of responsibility and hands decisions over to electorate. Governments elected to govern - should make political decisions and made publicly accountable for their decisions.
- Strengthens government: may extend government power in a variety of ways. Government decide whether, when and what issues to call referendum on and frame question.
- Unreliable views: only provide a snapshot of public opinion at one point in time, Unreliable guide to the public interest.
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