democracy and participation Flashcards
What are gladiators?
Relatively small percentage of activists who are keen participants
What are spectators?
The largest majority, those who observe the contest but who limit their participation to voting
What are apathetics?
The non-participants who do not even watch the contest and are indifferent to its outcome
What is a 40:30:30 society?
40% - of population have secure employment and are comfortably well Off.
30% - in insecure employment (Self-employed and part-time workers)
30%- economically and socially marginalised, jobless or working for poverty wages and barely able to subsist.
what did the reform act of 1832 entail of?
- passed by the wigs (lab)
- 6% could now vote, 1 in 5 men
- pocket and rotten boroughs could now vote, significant change
what unrest came along with the reform act of 1832?
- riots 1831 as people believed reformation of suffrage wouldn’t happen
name the 6 historical reformations of suffrage
- reform act of 1832
- second reformation act of 1867
- third reformation act of 1885
- representation of the people act 1918
- representation of the people act 1928
- representation of the people act 1969
second reformation act of 1867
allowed around 1 in 3 men to vote, electorate now 2 million
third reformation act of 1885
2 in 3 men allowed
most working men
representation of the people act 1918
- married, graduate or property-owning women aged over 30 given the vote
representation of the people act 1928
- all adults over 21 could vote, including women
representation of the people act 1969
- all people over 18 could vote
direct democracy
- system or situation in which people rather than elected representatives make
what is an example of direct democracy?
referendums
representative democracy
- a principle that people are represented in government by elected officials rather than taking part in the decision making process
edmund burke quote for representative democracy
‘your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays you if he sacrifices it to your opinion’
1774
nature of democracy quote abraham lincoln
‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’
three features of the nature of democracy
- tolerance of different opinions and of the media
- protection of the right of citizens
- government accountable to the people
democracy meaning
- a government that is accountable to the people, that rules according to clearly understood limits on their power, under a constitution and with an independent judiciary
difference between power and authority
power = the ability to make people do things (that they might not want to do)
authority = the given right to influence someone’s power
great reform act 1932
franchise extended to shopkeepers and small farmers
five ways to improve democracy and participation
- compulsory voting
- lower voting age
- primary elections
- recall elections
- referendums and initiatives
ballot act 1872
introduced the secret ballot
representation of the people act 1948
principle of ‘one person one vote’ established