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Assess the case for and against the use of referendums.
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Assess the case for and against the use of referendums Direst democracy is a measure of testing reactions to different policy options, for example TV and radio surveys are now common and Internet opinion polls are increasingly used as opinion guides. In all of these cases, people are making their views known directly rather than having them filtered by elected representatives. A representative democracy is the practice of expressing the demands and interests of the people through chosen representatives for example the representative for the constituency of Waltham forest is Harry Cohen and he has a seat in parliament to represent his constituency. One of the problems with Representative democracy is when a party is elected to govern a country. There is no way of knowing whether the electorate supported all or only small parts. Elections are not fought on a single question and so it is never clear which parts of...
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