1. But neither has found an authentic expression in the institutions of representative democracy. 2. In both cases therefore a system of representative democracy is adopted. 3. The wired village will inevitably lead the world in the direction of more direct rather than representative democracies. 4. What constraints are imposed by representative democracy? 5. Rogger points out that any moves towards a representative democracy were blocked by the negative attitude of representative institutions which was shared by the Tsar. 6. How far, therefore, does our present system of representative competitive democracy encourage active citizenship? 7. It is a fundamental assumption of representative democracy that bureaucratic functions will be controlled and ultimately answerable and responsive to elected representatives. 8. First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship. 9. Therefore representative democracy presents itself as the best compromise. |
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