POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, Elections Canada, Canadian Content
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Civil society groups and organizations not run by the government. Bicameral legislature two chambers or houses, i. e. senate (upper house) and house of commons (lower house). Deliberate democracy decisions are made based on discussions with citizens. Citizen"s jury randomly selected to deliberate about and make decisions concerning issues. Liberal democracies have two different forms of power, i. e. provincial and federal. Popular sovereignty when a party loses they voluntarily resign. 1st feature free and fair elections political parties do not control elections they are run by elections canada. 2nd: political parties are free to organize present candidates for public actions and compete in elections free from intimidation. 3rd feature of liberal democracies: government doesn"t operate in secret, the way they create laws is set out for population before hand, how the national legislature is operating is known to the population, government is transparent and accountable.
