POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proportional Representation, Instant-Runoff Voting, Cgp Grey
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Voting lodges sovereignty in the people it legitimates government, leaders, and legislation obligates citizens to abide by government laws and policies. The end result(direct) is supposed to be consensus. Moved away from direct democracy to representative democracy. Most common instance of direct democracy is referendum. A policy submitted to public for rejection or approval. In california, a few months before election, one would receive a book that would incld the text of all the referendums you can vote on: eg. This book lays out the arguments for and against each prop. But even with these books, its hard to work out which ones are relevant to you, and one has to develop and opinion: great direct democracy, cause we can vote for someone to do all the work. Rep democracy, delegating someone to sift through the issues, and to the work on your behalf. Historically, most democracies came about by enlarging the pool of voters.
