Click or Elect?
This form of democracy involves citizens voting directly on laws or policies, often through referendums.
What is Direct Democracy?
This principle states that all adult citizens should have the right to vote.
What is Universal Suffrage?
This type of group promotes a cause or issue rather than representing a specific group.
What is a cause group?
This Act incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law in 1998.
What is the Human Rights Act 1998?
This device of direct democracy was used in the UK during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
What is a Referendum?
This contemporary debate questions whether this age group should be given voting rights in general elections.
What is lowering the voting age to 16?
This insider strategy involves direct consultation with government ministers and policymakers.
What is lobbying?
This 1215 document is often seen as the foundation of civil liberties in the UK, establishing that the monarch is subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This advantage of representative democracy highlights the role of experienced politicians in decision-making.
What is expertise (or informed decision making)?
This Act caused the greatest increase in number of eligible voters from roughly 7.7 Million to 21 Million.
What is the Representation of the People Act, 1918?
This outsider tactic involves public demonstrations or protests to influence opinion.
What is direct action?
This type of right involves freedom from state interference, such as freedom of speech.
What are negative rights?
This principle of representative democracy suggests elected officials act according to their own judgement rather than strictly following voters’ wishes.
What is the trustee model of representation?
This type of suffrage restricts voting rights based on factors such as property ownership or wealth.
What is limited suffrage?
This type of pressure group represents specific sections of society, such as workers or businesses.
What is a sectional group?
This type of right requires the state to take action to ensure citizens can access certain benefits, such as education or healthcare.
What are positive rights?
This criticism of referendums argues they can be dominated by government influence over timing, wording, and campaign resources.
What is the critique of executive manipulation (or government control of referendums)?
This argument against compulsory voting claims it infringes on individual freedom.
What is the liberty argument?
This criticism argues that pressure groups can create inequality by giving more influence to wealthy or well-organised groups.
What is the inequality of influence argument?
This principle, developed through common law, ensures individuals cannot be detained without lawful justification.
What is habeas corpus?