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CAT 2022 Slot 1 Paper

Question : 18 of 66

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By giving citizens greater control over shaping political and democratic agendas, political petitions are invaluable asthey represent an ideal form of a representative democracy.
Citizens become less inclined to petitioning as it enables vocal citizens to shape political agendas, but this needs tochange to strengthen democracies today.
Petitioning has been important to democratic functioning, as it supplements the electoral process by enablingongoing engagement with the government.
Petitioning is definitely more representative of the collective voice, and the functioning of democratic governmentcould improve if we relied more on petitioning rather than holding periodic elections.

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