Citizens have a direct input into the policy-making process
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What is indirect or representative democracy?
Citizens elect representatives who enact laws on their behalf
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What is liberal democracy?
Democracy that incorporates free and fair elections along with a belief in the importance of certain key rights and responsibilities onsibilities onsibilities
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What is a referendum?
A vote on a single issue, put to a public ballot by the government of the day
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What is an initiative?
A type of referendum in which the citizens choose the question to be voted on themselves
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What is political culture?
The ideas, beliefs and attitudes that shape political behaviour within a given area. It describes the way in which citizens collectively view the political system and their status and role within it
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What is a franchise?
The right to vote
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What is legitimacy?
The legal right or authority to exercise power. A government claims legitimacy as a result of the mandate it secures at a general election
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What is a mandate?
The right of the governing party to pursue the policies it sets out in its general election manifesto
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What is political apathy?
Indifferences towards political institutions and their associated processes
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What is direct democracy?
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Citizens have a direct input into the policy-making process
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