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A 6 page paper assessing the statement that the United States does not fit either the Participatory, the Liberal-Representative or the Pluralist models of democracy. The paper discusses each to conclude that America’s democracy is closest to the pluralist model, in which there are more than one or two types of ultimate reality. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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[1989] ... the United States does not fulfill the expectations of either the Participatory, the Liberal-Representative or the Pluralist models of democracy. Analyze this contention and show to which model(s)
the United States comes the closest." Participatory Democracy One author explains that the "Executive and Legislative branches were created to enact laws and
protect the interests of the people" (We the People), and that the Judicial branch is the final arbiter of issues that arise through the operation of the other two.
The Participatory Democracy organization declares that each of "these three branches are utterly worthless, and indeed profoundly dangerous, without the active involvement of the People. We are the fourth branch
of government, the owners of the democracy, and we have been terribly remiss in our duties" (We the People). In the ideal situation
- and that intended by the Framers of the Constitution - the people elect representatives for various levels of government, representatives that will act in ways that reflect the wishes
of the majority of the people that they represent. Direct election of government officials always has been operation in the local area, while presidential elections are decided by the
electoral college. The merit of the system can be questioned in todays environment of instant communications, but it was quite efficient when it was designed.
The student writing on this topic should note that though the electoral college may have been efficient at the time, it introduced opportunity for the wishes of
the people to be circumvented. We have been adding myriad opportunities in other areas ever since. Add to this the fact that so many citizens choose not to
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