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• Participatory Democracy


  Emphasizes broad participation in politics, citizens vote on laws directly - pure democracy, wants as many people to participate
• More population = complex laws for laws needed to govern
• Participatory democracy appears on the local level
• Elitist Democracy


  Emphasizes limited participation in politics, believes that a few well-educated and informed group should be able to make the decisions that direct the nation to create laws on behalf of the people
• Elitist democracy can prevent bad decision-making
• Having well-informed people can elect people who are devoted to politics that can help the complexities within the government
• Elitist Form: The President appoints judges to SCOTUS
• Elitist Form 2: Electoral College - People who represent the states vote for the President
• Elitist democracy appears on the federal level
• Pluralist Democracy


  Neutral in the spectrum of democracy. Describes group-based activism by non-government interests which work to impact & influence policy-making
• Interest groups


  Groups who form around a social / political issue that try to influence the representatives on the federal level
• Interest groups raise money / resources & persuasion towards legislators to pass laws favorable to the interest group's cause
• States represent the interests of their citizens
• Many states & representatives in the US which causes interests to be put into competition
• Pluralist democracy appears on the federal level
• Elite Model


  Provides that elected representatives should be able to pass legislation on behalf of the people's interests
• Pluralist Model


  In order for a law to get passed, various interests have to compromise to get it done. Interests are conflicting, no interest dominates
• Participatory Model


  Separation of powers between the federal and state governments, states can make their own laws that don't conflict with the federal government's
• Participatory Model


  Anti-Federalists favored the participatory model: feared the tyranny of a powerful central government & wanted majority of the power to go to the states
• Factions


  Threat to liberty, a group of people who form for a common desire in order to dominate the government to impose their interests
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  Size & diversity of a nation would lead to differing interests & parties & preventing a tyranny by the majority which would limit the effects of factions.
• Compromises can happen which can fulfill the common good of society instead of one's groups main interest
• Pluralist Model


  There is much diversity in the population would lead to factions of interest to compete with one another, which would prevent tyranny