Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Democracy
- Democracy - rule by the people
- Representative deomcracy -
when the people chose a person
or party to represent their views
- Direct democracy - a form of
democracy in which citizens
themselves assemble to
debate and decide issues of
public importance
- Pluralism - a
system of
government that
encourages
participation and
allows for free and
fair competition
between competing
interests
- In a pluralist democracy:
- There will be a
diverse range of
competing interests
- There will be numerous
access points - points of
leverage where pressure
groups can exert influence
- No single group will
be able to exclude
any other from
political process
- Some refer to the UK as having a
pluralist democracy but some feel that
we are still ruled by the elite