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This 4 page paper defines Democratic Theory and asks how well its elements are reflected in the governance (responsibilities/powers/behavior) of the President. Bibliography lists 4 source.
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Democratic Theory and asks how well its elements are reflected in the governance (responsibilities/powers/behavior) of the President. Discussion Democratic Theory "is normative in nature" (Janda, 2000). The word
"normative" "refers to value judgments about what ought to be instead of factual information about "what is" (Deardorff, 2006). Another way of understanding it is to consider that certain
things are believed by the majority to be a certain way, though in actual fact they may be quite different. For instance, "polls regularly show that a majority of
Americans think that foreign aid constitutes the largest item in the U.S. budget, when foreign aid constitutes less than 1%" (Janda, 2000). Applied to Democratic Theory, then, the word means
that the theory describes the government that most Americans believe they have, whether they actually do or not. A "major normative principle" of most western nations is that "democracy is
the best form of government" (Janda, 2000). But there are two views on what constitutes a democracy. The "procedural" view says that a democracy has equal participation; equality;
and majority rule (Janda, 2000). Unfortunately, these only apply in a direct democracy; the U.S. is a representative democracy (we elect Senators and Congresspersons to represent our interests).
The second view is the "substantive" one, which "evaluates democracy on the basis of substance of government policies" (Janda, 2000). Most people who believe in this type of democracy
believe that the government is obligated to "guarantee civil rights and liberties" and "social and economic" rights to the citizens (Janda, 2000). And finally, responsiveness states that "elected representatives
should respond to public opinion" (Janda, 2000). Since the U.S. can be classified as belonging in the "substantive" column, the question is, does the U.S. President guarantee civil rights,
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