Learning outcome 3.6 Students should be able to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the democratic process.
Exercise 73A Examining the advent of democracy in different countries Key Skills
Success criteria
I can identify how democracy was not achieved in a similar fashion everywhere.
In a democracy, people can vote on issues directly or send someone that they elect to make decisions for them. The main feature of a democracy is that the people choose their leaders and get the chance to remove them if they are not happy with their performance.
Working in groups, match the following photos with the correct names and year in which they fi rst achieved the right to vote.
People A Saudi Arabian woman North Korean Park Sang Hak a 19th-century Irish peasant farmer Australian Neville Bonner
Year 1
1884 1918 2 1956 1962
a Swiss woman Irishwoman Hanna Sheehy-Skeffi ngton a black South African woman an early 20th-century native American woman