Pros and Cons of Direct Democracy

Question 1

Advantages of Direct Democracy

Answer 1

Transparency - Ensures a strong level of openness between citizens and the goverment

Wishes of the people - Ensures that the will of the people is clear. So the goverment will have a clear directive to act.

Purest form - Direct democracy is the purest form of democracy without any interuptions.

Question 2

Disadvantages of Direct democracy

Answer 2

Voters may not be experts - Voters may have lesser knowledge about inportant decisions than a representatibe politican

Can be manipulated - This way in which questions are phrased and the timing of them can manipulate results. The wording of the 2016 EU refferendum was changed from yes/no to remain or leave. Yes no benifit yes