Democracy is the accepted forms of governance of people throughout the world and is divided into direct and indirect democracy. Direct democracy is a system of democracy in which power is placed directly in the hands of people. The strengths of direct democracy include it provides direct responsibility, enhances transparency, increases political participation, and facilitates the creation of a well cooperative community. However, its weaknesses include difficulties in decision making, ignoring the opinions of the minority, and needs for extremely high costs. On the contrary, indirect democracy is a system of governance where leaders and officials are elected by the people and mandated with the responsibility of making decisions, formulating policies, lawmaking, and running the country. Its strengths include well balanced decisions, effective legislative body, and well balanced policies whereas the weaknesses include under representation of minorities and increased likelihood of inefficiency and corruption. The most effective democracy is indirect democracy since it has more benefits as compared to direct democracy. For instance, the United States utilizes indirect democracy since citizens choose electors who in turn elect the president.
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1. Democracy is the most effective form of...
Despite its flaws, democracy is the most effective since it ensure the government is created by the people and for the people. Secondly, democracy promotes and respects human rights, creates fundamental freedoms, and ensures everyone is equal before the
law.
2. Money plays a big role in presidential as well as state and local elections given its influence on the political process. The big role of
money in presidential elections is that it influences decisions regarding winners and losers. Therefore, there should be limits on the amount of money that people and corporations can give to a candidate in an election cycle and to an individual candidate or party respectively. The best solution to the current campaign finance situation in the United States is establishing laws that establish limits on political donations by individuals and corporations. This would help resolve the current situation by lessening the likelihood of wealthy individuals and corporations to influence political decisions at the expense of the opinions of poor people.
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Presidents use their formal and informal powers as well as resources to pursue their agendas despite the need for cooperation between the various arms of government. The president's formal powers are derived from the
Constitution, which make him/her the administrative head of the government. Presidents use these strong formal powers to pursue their agenda through forcing Congress into session, issuing executive orders, granting pardons, and veto
legislation.…
