Direct Democracy :
- Social accessibility
- Low technical knowledge needed
Example : Gay marriage
Representative Democracy :
- Simplifying the decision making process, quick decisions. Votes are not organised for every single thing
- Delegation to competent people
Participatory Democracy :
- No possible corruption or lobbying
- Taking the actual best decision for society
- People usually fully agree with the decisions
Direct Democracy :
- Populisme (opposing the populations to politicians).
- Results depending on social and political climate.
- Slow
- Citizen are not necessarly competent on the matter and tend to agree with experts and politicians when not
Exemple : When the governement gave a very difficult document to understand to citizen to make a decision about the european constitution treaty. They voted NO since they coud not understand the documents at hand
Representative Democracy :
- Representants are often disconnected from reality.
- Corruption lobbying.
- Encourages the politicians to be deceptive, once the citizen have voted they do not have power anymore.
Participatory Democracy :
- Very slow
- Number of people involved and concerned, the more there are the more difficult the decision making process will be
