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Yes – Low turnout at elections undermines the legitimacy of the resultTurnout at the 2015 General Election was 66.1%, far below the high levels of the 1970s, where it reached 78.8% in 197...

As evidenced in liberal democracies where compulsory voting is a federal law, this has had a positive impact on political participation and has been proposed by campaigners such as Graham...

Yes, codify the constitutionA codified constitution creates a hierarchy of laws. This allows for the enshrining of the rights of citizens protected from the government of the day and acts...

A direct democracy is, in theory, the only legitimate and pure form of democracy. It is the model of democracy which gives people the most power, which is the very aim of a democracy. It is argu...

Referendums are sometimes held because a party cannot decide on an issue; a referendum is held to stop a party splitting. Due to the heterogeneous make up of the major political parties, certain issues di...