POLS-101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Additional Member System, Nato, Single Transferable Vote
7 Jan 2017
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In a situation when there are three or more options, it is impossible to determine the one that is most preferred unless more than 50% vote for it. The outcome of such a vote depends on the method used to count the vote. Direct democracy: political system where citizens are directly involved in the decision-making process. Rare as it is organizationally and functionally difficult to have everyone involved in the process. Indirect democracy: political system of representation in which citizens elect a delegate to act on their behalf. Representative democracy: political system where voters elect others to act on their behalf. Right to vote is not always fully democratic. Suffrage (granting of the right to vote) historically has been evolutionarily, where some groups were not given the same rights. Most often, candidates for election will represent a political party. Parties have their own rules and processes for choosing their candidates, and set their own election platforms:
