Democracy

Democracy

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

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