Different types of democracy

Evaluation

In Conclusion, both types of democracies have their flaws. The biggest one being that with direct democracy there will a/the tyranny of the majority. In the Brexit referendum the Vote Leave campaign only won by a margin of 4%... to me this doesn't suggest that the government has a real mandate to leave the European union. The result was so close yet they still won it, another issue with the Brexit referendum was that people were not informed enough to make a decision and there were a lot of lies passed around.... at least with representative democracy we can be reassured to some extent that the MP's now what they are voting for. Their vote would be rational rather than emotional- however there's a chance that MP's vote on a partisan basis which also endangers the legititmacy of the result. A flaw with representative democracy is that sometimes as an MP it could be hard do judge who their duties lie with the party or their constituency.