(2)Types of democracy's

(2)Types of democracy's

1. Direct Democracy

   • Benefits
     • Genuine democracy
       • 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

2. 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