ensure that people are more
like to obey the laws they
make themselve
Try freedom determine there collect
destiny
Personal development
creates informed and
knowledgeable citizens
End of processional politicals
Reduces or ends,
self-serving professional
politicians
Legitimates government
Direct democracy ensures that rule is
legitimate, in the sense that people are
more likely to accept decisions that they
have made themselves.
Negatives
Direct democracy only achieve in
relatively small communities.
Direct democracy means that politics is the
job for all citizen's, restricting their ability to
carry out other duties and activates.
Low turn out
Minority groups will
always lose out because
of the majority vote
Representative Democracy
Negatives
Representative Democracy always means that there
is a gulf between the government and the people.
To much faith in politicians, who are
always liable to distort public opinion
The government may believe that the people
are not informed/ incompetent to make key decisions
Benefits
Only form of democracy
that can operative in large,
modern society
Government by experts
Places decisions making in the hands of politicians
who have better education and greater experience
Division of labour in politics
More effective because ordinary citizens are
relieved of the burden of day-to-day decision
making.
Political stability
Maintain political stability by helping to distance ordinary
citizens from politics, thereby encourage them to accept
compromise. A certain level of apathy is helpful in
maintaining political stability
Parliamentary democracy
A form of democracy that
operates though a popular
elected deliberative assembly,
which establishes an indirect
link between government and
the governed
It creates a
system of
representative
and responsible
government
It balances popular
participatrion against
elite rule
Government is
accountable not
direct to the
public but to the
public elected
representative