POLI 221 Chapter Notes -Polling Place, Democratic Deficit, Royal Assent
2 Oct 2014
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Action plan for democratic reform through the privy council office: liberal fallout caused this to never really be implemented, democratic deficit, started in europe in 1970s when the push for european unification occurred . European superstate from national governments to european bureaucracy. Democratic institutions representing european interests were insufficiently accountable, transparent and effective. Real power would have been in the unelected technocrats who met. European elections were decentralized and apathetic affairs with not a secretly lot of voters turning up. Not a lot of the poor, women and dependent. Groups believed that the eu was just interested in economic affairs: term is used to describe perceived loss of control over what their own political destinies experienced by many citizens in an age of rapid globalization. Democratic institutions lacked real power and political executive had it all. Women, ethnic minorities, aboriginal peoples are underrepresented. Fixed dates for elections (like in british columbia)
