Direct Democracy Referendums Mind Map
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- Created on: 02-03-17 10:27
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- Politicians are the experts they should make these decisions
- Electorate not educated enough to make informed decisions
- 'Legislation must be made by the quality, not by the mob'- George Bernard Shaw
- Referendum results can be skewed by voter ignorance
- Reactionary Eg capital punishment referendum at the time of high profile murder case
- Direct Democracy: Referendums
- Brings people closer to government
- Important in a time where people are becoming disillusioned with politicians
- Legitimizes policy plans
- Consulting the electorate and gaining a mandate
- especially important when making big constitutional change eg Devolution
- Consulting the electorate and gaining a mandate
- Encourages political participation
- increase amount of political debate
- Educates electorate to an extent
- increase amount of political debate
- Financial differences between Yes and No campaigns
- if lots of publicity given to Yes and very little to No is it fair?
- Brings people closer to government
- Electorate not educated enough to make informed decisions
- Low turnouts can undermine legitimacy of the vote
- eg referendum on Welsh Assembly 25.2% turnout
- Direct Democracy: Referendums
- Brings people closer to government
- Important in a time where people are becoming disillusioned with politicians
- Legitimizes policy plans
- Consulting the electorate and gaining a mandate
- especially important when making big constitutional change eg Devolution
- Consulting the electorate and gaining a mandate
- Encourages political participation
- increase amount of political debate
- Educates electorate to an extent
- increase amount of political debate
- Financial differences between Yes and No campaigns
- if lots of publicity given to Yes and very little to No is it fair?
- Brings people closer to government
- Many argue a lower threshold of 40% should be enforced
- Some questions cannot be put down to a Yes or No answer.
- Some argue Brexit referendum should have not been a yes or no
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