Do the People Truly Rule in a Representative Democracy?

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Do the People Truly Rule in a Representative Democracy? is written by Tim Pfefferle and published by GRIN Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3656174180 (ISBN 10) and 9783656174189 (ISBN 13).

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 76, Queen Mary University of London (Department of Politics and International Relations), language: English, abstract: This essay will deal with the question whether the people can be considered to rule in a representative democracy. While our representatives are only accountable to a limited extent, a democracy is supposed to be based on the idea of the sovereignty of the people. Therefore, representative democracy has to be compared to its challenger, direct democracy, to conclude whether a representative democracy is an adequate political system.