To what extent are Referenda Harmful in a Representative Democracy? Referendums are very harmful to a Representative Democracy. They undermine Parliamentary Sovereignty‚ allow our politicians to abdicate responsibility for major political decisions‚ prevent them from exercising their informed judgements‚ and can be manipulated by Governments. This is to say nothing of the premise of allowing important decisions to be made by an uninformed electorate that can be swayed by the Media Industry at
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seats in Congress‚ rather than Rhode Island or Delaware. The states with a higher population are appointed more seats and they get those seats from the states with fewer people that are counted from the census. The effervescent image of American democracy is that of a vibrant government that is open to change and subject to will of its voters‚ unfortunately this is an illusion. The problem with redrawing lines is that it eliminates the evaluation process that the public has by preventing competitive
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I completely agree that a democracy dies behind closed doors. By definition‚ a democracy is a “government by the people”. Whether a direct or representative democracy‚ a closed-door meeting is typically associated with private or sensitive information‚ which is being intentionally and selectively withheld from the people. As with the media in today’s society‚ selective information is not always accurate information. A true democracy should be transparent and have no need for closed doors‚ especially
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Word Count: 308‚ excluding in-text citations POL1004F: Introduction to Politics‚ Tutorial Group #11 25 April 2014 Third Wave of Democracy Third World democracies are declining and an influential authoritarian state like North Korea shows no sign of democratization. Therefore‚ Liberal and democratic stagnation could signal the end of the third wave of democracy‚ unless reserve wave prevention policies are implemented. A wave of democratization is a period of time where countries move from
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extent are democracy and dictatorship different? In order to answer this question we must first examine the generic basis of both democracy and dictatorship separately. The term democracy originates from the Greeks‚ and is defined as “rule of the people” coming from the words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (power). It was coined around 400 BCE‚ to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states‚ notably Athens. Commonly‚ two forms of democracy are recognised‚ these being direct democracy
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Democracy is a system‚ which stresses the importance of establishing “a social state in which all have equal rights” and that the rule of the majority is always the best. However‚ constitutions on the other hand‚ “are codes of rules which aspire to regulate the allocation of powers…among…government”. This conflicts with the concept of democracy as it places restrictions on what the government; elected “by the people‚ for the people”; can do. Surprisingly‚ the country that is often perceived as the
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Democracy is a government of the people‚ for the people‚ by the people. In this government‚ people are the rulers and the ruled. Government is formed through elections. All the adult citizens cast votes and elect their representatives. This democracy is run through their elected representatives. Dictatorship is a form of government in where there’s a centralization of power. All power rests in the hands of one person. The people have no say in what goes on. There aren’t very many similarities between
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Democracy - the best government system Democracy- the best way to govern. The term ‘democracy’‚ like many other political terms‚ was first discovered in Ancient Greece. It consists of two short words: ‘demos’ which means either ‘a citizen in a particular city-state’ or ‘the lower orders’‚ and ‘kratos’ which means either ‘rule’ or ‘power’ - but these two are not of the same meaning. The original meaning of democracy is the rule by the poor or by the rabble. Aristotle had a clear argument stating
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the legislators but rather with the public‚ the answers become even more elusive. In Judicial Approaches to Direct Democracy‚
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Finally‚ after 61 years of ‘successful’ democratic form of government‚ every thing has boiled down to the Shoe… when an Indian slammed the India world looks up to- the largest democracy (irony intended). The shoe has definitely ignited lot of debate over the issue of the Anti-sikh riots in 1984 leading to cancellation of candidature of the candidates in question. But it has left lots of questions‚ unspoken and unanswered. Biggest of them is would any other way of registering anguish would have attracted
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