Decisions in this country are not made by the top of the chain of command; instead the government is decentralized, like a pluralist government, and power is separated and divided out into different branches. This allows, from the pluralist perspective, an open government that is able to hear the point of view from any group or individual that wants their voice to be heard. This in turn protects the rights and civil liberties of the individual like in the substantive view of democracy. A procedural democracy would instead look only at the political process of democracy in a specific country to determine whether or not it is democratic. This idea often disrupts minority rights and does not look for a government that is open and accessible to the
Decisions in this country are not made by the top of the chain of command; instead the government is decentralized, like a pluralist government, and power is separated and divided out into different branches. This allows, from the pluralist perspective, an open government that is able to hear the point of view from any group or individual that wants their voice to be heard. This in turn protects the rights and civil liberties of the individual like in the substantive view of democracy. A procedural democracy would instead look only at the political process of democracy in a specific country to determine whether or not it is democratic. This idea often disrupts minority rights and does not look for a government that is open and accessible to the