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The UK government is a representative democracy where its citizens elect a representative to make decisions on their behalf on the legislation and executive issues in free regular elections, it is expected that the government will address popular concerns expressed by the elected representative . But a democracy where all the citizens are involved directly in political decisions is in practice, impossible within the UK, so a representative democracy is a compromise between the extremes of representation of the individual and popular consensus. ... Democracy at the Polls, Butler et al (1981) demonstrates that representative democracy is an obvious essential in a system of electoral law and practice. As well as being a representative democracy, the UK is also labeled as a liberal democracy by embracing the issue of civil liberties. ... Regular elections and secret ballots take place at least once every five years, with people having the right to vote their representatives in Parliament (Parliament Act 1911) and it tries to eliminate the fear of intimidation or reprisal that happened before 1872 (the Secret Ballot Act 1872) . ... The Electoral Commission, created by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA) 2000, has been set up to ensure the number of electors in different constituencies approximated to the electoral quota for their part of UK and therefore the large disparities between the numbers of the voters in different constituencies were reduced .
The UK electoral system is based on the ¡§First-Past-The Post¡¨ system (¡§FPTP¡¨) where the candidate who gets the most votes win, regardless of whether he or she has more than 50% support. ... FPTP is a cheap and simple way to hold the election, but with a few exceptions of recounts due to the closeness of the votes, in most cases FPTP allows for a clear winner, counting the ballot papers is fast and the results are usually known the next day after polling, the speed of the process allows for a new government to take over power swiftly or the current government on winning the election to swiftly return to business with limited disruption to the political life of the nation, and with UK politics dominated by two main parties stability is ensured.
Approximate Word count = 1447
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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