POLSCI 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Reference Question, 18 Months

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Lots to talk about each question: 6 will appear. Which you will answer 3 in total. Q1) according to freedom house, at the end of 2015 a total of 125 countries were electoral democracies. We live in a world where more and more states are governed under democratic principles. Having said this, critics suggest that the dominant form of democracy in the modern world is rather indirect and is, in fact, less democratic than it could be. They were directly involved in controlling power of state. The people as a whole do not control political power. Created out of concern: tyrannical power of the majority. Thus checks were made between people and political power. Q2) the 2020 canadian federal election was a hard-fought contest: the ballots were counted and no one party won a majority of seats in the house of commons.