POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Direct Democracy, Proportional Representation, Billboard Charts
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Lecture 07 31st october 2016: electoral systems and representation. Obligates citizens to abide by government laws and policies. Citizens play a role in the responsibility of choosing policies. Representation: symbolic representation e. g. us = eagle freedom and strength, an agent acting on your behalf e. g. choose representation that represents your belief, shared characteristics e. g. women represented by a woman. Representative democracy is preferable to direct democracy. 12190 spent on ads to sway voters to vote for/against same-sex marriage (~ million spent) ~14 million people votes man-woman marriage law upheld. Voting delegates power to someone else to enact policies in representative democracy. Evolution of democracy and expanding the franchise. Initially, voting was limited to: male (last category to fall around wwii, white (2nd category to fall, property owners (1st category to fall) Women"s voting was limited by race initially until asian women were allowed first, then aboriginal women were allowed in the 1960s in canada.
