Representative and Direct Democracy
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- Created on: 16-05-23 11:39
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- Representative and Direct Democracy
- Direct Democracy
- people make decisions for themselves
- Adv.
- transparency
- educates citizens on political issues
- 'purest' type of democracy
- all votes count
- Disadv.
- the electorate can be easily influenced
- Boris Brexit Bus
- a time-consuming, expensive and impractical system
- The cost of the 2016 EU referendum was 142.4M
- voters may be unable to make an informed decision
- the electorate can be easily influenced
- Representative Democracy
- a system in which people are ruled by reps and decisions are made on their behalf
- Adv.
- the people in charge are professional and are qualified to make complex decisions
- elected politicians can be held to account
- more practical
- Disadv.
- low participation levels
- 2014 EU Parliament elections was 35.6% so more marginal and radical parties won
- delegates v trustees
- reps can act on the wishes of the people (delegate)
- reps can act on what they think would be best (trustee)
- lacks descriptive rep.
- 20% of MPs are privately educated and 7% of the UK pop is
- low participation levels
- Democratic reform
- FOR democratic reform
- Institutions
- The House of Lords and the Supreme Court are unelected chambers but have great power
- Institutions
- AGAINST democratic reform
- Pressure groups
- represent minority interests and scrutinise the govt
- Media scrutiny
- scrutinises politicians and the govt and holds them to account
- Election participation
- UK electoral participation is similar to other Western democracies
- Pressure groups
- FOR democratic reform
- Direct Democracy
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