POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Hartt Laurinda

Document Summary

3 ways direct democracy is practiced: referendum: do you want a or b. The initiative comes from the citizen: recall: the citizens/voters can make a petition to remove a politician from their job, representative democracy. This democracy began with modern democracy in the. We elect a representative and that representative makes decisions on our behalf. The mass of people does not control government they control who controls the government. If you were a woman, slave, foreigner, you were not a citizen.