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	Podcast:		The A Level Politics Show
	Episode:		UK democracy: Is it in deficit?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:28:25
	Publish Date:		2019-08-22 21:53:47
	Description:		The late, great Neill McNaughton defined a democratic deficit as “features of the political system which do not conform to, or fall short of, the normal criteria for a true democracy.” It is therefore important to understand what the features or criteria for democracy ought to be and to judge the UK political system against them. Is there enough pluralism? Are elections free and fair? Are several forms of democracy present, including direct, liberal and representative, and do they complement each other? Do people participate in politics and accept that the government has legitimacy? Nick argues that if we judge the UK by posing these sorts of questions, then it is fair to argue that it is indeed suffering from a democratic deficit, made even more so by the collision between direct and representative democracy in the EU referendum, which has laid bare all the faults of the UK political system.
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