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Railways PYQCBT 1 2016

RRB NTPC · Question 32

The term polyarchy was used by Robert Dahl to describe a form of government in which?

  1. It reduces the multitudinous differences of opinion to relatively simple alternatives

  2. It takes individual as the basic unit of democratic model

  3. People can participate through their representations

  4. People act both through the electoral system and the group process

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Answer: (D) People act both through the electoral system and the group process

Explanation

Robert Dahl used 'polyarchy' for real-world democracies in which power is spread among many groups and people act both through elections and through the competition of interest groups.