Types of Democracy and Ways of Participating.

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1a) Define Representative Democracy

Representative democracy is a form of government in which elected officials represent the people of the country.   In the UK each MP represents a constituency, they represent the interests of the constituency as a whole and their constituents as individuals.  They are expected to take up the grievances of the people of their constituency to the government and see what can be done in order to sort out the problems.  The houses of Parliament are also to some extent expected to act representatively towards society as a whole, however they cannot please everyone in society and therefore they can unfortunately not claim to be truly socially representative of the nation.  However in a representative Democracy the government tries its best to be socially representative of their nation

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3a) Define Liberal Democracy

Liberal Democracy is a form of Representative Democracy.  According to the rules of a Liberal Democracy.  Elections should be free and fair and the political process should be competitive.  Meaning whoever wants to create a political party can create one and run for election for example the elections in Britain are free from corruption, there is an independent election commission that oversees elections and makes sure they are fair, however some people believe that voting under the first past the post system isn’t fair.  The principles of a Liberal democracy says ...

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