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Mind Map by Marcus Danvers, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Marcus Danvers
over 11 years ago
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(2)Types of democracy's
- Direct Democracy
- Benefits
- Genuine democracy
- ensure that people are more
like to obey the laws they
make themselve
- Try freedom determine there collect
destiny
- ensure that people are more
like to obey the laws they
make themselve
- Personal development
- creates informed and
knowledgeable citizens
- creates informed and
knowledgeable citizens
- End of processional politicals
- Reduces or ends,
self-serving professional
politicians
- 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.
- Direct democracy ensures that rule is
legitimate, in the sense that people are
more likely to accept decisions that they
have made themselves.
- Genuine democracy
- 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
- Direct democracy only achieve in
relatively small communities.
- Benefits
- 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
- Representative Democracy always means that there
is a gulf between the government and the people.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Only form of democracy
that can operative in large,
modern society
- 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
- A form of democracy that
operates though a popular
elected deliberative assembly,
which establishes an indirect
link between government and
the governed
- Negatives
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