Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Democracy
- Direct
- Example
- Town Meetings in the USA
- Discuss budgets, administrative
issues, forum to ask questions
- Explination
- People govern themselves
- All people come together and vote on issues
- All people are equally invlolved
- Government by many
- Critique
- Modern societies are too large
- too time consuming
- Government in modern societies is too complex
- Indirect
- Explination
- people elect a number of
representatives to act on their
behalf.
- people elect a number of representatives
to act on their behalf.
- Examples
- Westminster
- USA
- Hollyrood
- critique
- only advance the interests of certain groups
- politicians have too much control over peoples lives
- may end up acting on selfish ideas
- Liberal
- Explination
- based on the belief of human rights and liberties
- Government should be based upon the consent of the governed
- Elections are the only source of legitimate
political authority
- combines elite rule with a significant
measure of popular participation
- Example
- electoral democracy
- Critique
- Marxist- capitilism creates too much politics, and economical inequality
- Radical
- Explination
- People are subjects to laws they make themselves , this makes them free
- public good is considered as the general will
- People try to identify what is for the common good.
- Forcing people to comply with the common good makes them free
- Critique
- Hard to identify a common good
- What qualifies the majority to decide the common good
- Forcing freedom is just an excuse used by the majority