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The Electoral College guarantees every state 3 votes which causes small states to be over-represented. In 2004, California had 34 million people with 55 votes and Wyoming had 500,000 people with 3 votes. Thi...

Voter turnout varies for numerous reasons, and we will examine a few of these during this sessions. Firstly, accessibility plays a major role in determining voter turnout. If voting locations cannot be easil...

Direct democracy involves people power, or the self-government of people, contrasting to a representative democracy by which representatives are elected in order to voice the opinions and interests of citize...

The first key feature of representative democracy is frequent elections. This is when citizens vote in these elections for politicians to represent their constituency in parliament. Another key feauture that...

In the past three decades, Labour has seen a switch from ‘Old Labour’, democratic socialists, who are highly critical of capitalism, and believe in reducing inequality through state ownership and economic in...