The importance of democracy
A mind map explaining why democracy is important today incl. key examples both historical and recent to help explain why democracy is important and how it can flourish.
- Created by: daniellapeers
- Created on: 05-05-16 12:34
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- The importance of democracy
- Establishes and protects freedoms.
- The French Revolution (1789)
- Mankind should be free - collectively and individually
- No government can threaten freedom unless it is consented by the people
- Collapse of the Soviet Union (1990)
- Protects minorities.
- Effective democracy takes minority groups into account
- John Stuart Mill - tyranny of the majority
- All groups have access to the political process
- Minorities have a free voice and are free from discrimination
- Effective democracy takes minority groups into account
- Controls government power.
- Power tends to corrupt those who wield it
- If government are left to their own devices, they will claim increasing amounts of power and abuse it
- Corruption is avoided due to the government being accountable to the people
- Power tends to corrupt those who wield it
- Encourages popular participation.
- In free democracy, people have the opportunity to become informed...
- ...and be directly involved in influencing decision making
- In free democracy, people have the opportunity to become informed...
- Disperses power more widely.
- If excessively concentrated, power is denied to a wider range of the population
- When power is dispersed widely among people and non-governmental associations, democracy is well served
- E.G. power lies in the hands of a small elite in Syria
- Power removed from vast majority of pop. so democracy will fail to flourish.
- Establishes and protects freedoms.
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