Democracy and Participation

Current systems of representative and direct democracy

A wider Franchise- History of voting rights UK. 

Pressure groups and participation. 

Rights and Participation. 

Key Terms you should know

• The Crisis of Democracy 

• Legitimacy

• The function of elections 

• Democracy

•  direct democracy

•  Representative democracy

• Pluralist democracy

•  democratic deficit

• Functions of democracy 

• Problems with Democracy 

• Participation crisis

• Franchise/Suffrage

• civil liberties

• Human Rights

•  Think Tanks 

• Lobbyists