POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Development, Elite Theory, Models 1

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

What is a democracy: democracy is a regime where political power is widely distributed as power in some way rests with the people in terms of political equality. What is a direct democracy: direct democracy is a system where people rule directly may be possible only in a very small scale society, representative democracy: the people choose others to represent their interests. Depending on a country"s political culture and the history of its institutions, there can be stronger and weaker versions of a representative democracy. 2: created two other branches of government (municipal, provincial, specific powers, executive, headed by the president, judiciary, headed by the supreme court, made up of judges appointed for life by the president and approved by the senate. Utilitarian theory of democracy: developed in the 19th century by jeremy bentham, ensures that the government remains accountable to the people through democracy.