One important feature of representative democracy is the chain of responsiveness. In the democratic process citizens' preferences are collected, mobilised, articulated, and aggregated by means of elections and translated into parliamentary or legislative seats.
Business systems analysis (BSA): An analytical. framework that involves analysing organisations as. systems or the process of systematically and. objectively gathering information about business. systems and subjecting that information to formal. analysis.
Also found in: Financial, Acronyms, Wikipedia. An action taken in the course of conducting business. Whether manual or automated, all processes require input and generate output. Depending on the level of viewing and modeling, a process can be a single task or a complicated procedure such as building a product. A business information system process typically means updating a database from a transaction such as an order or application form (transaction vs. master). See transaction, business process modeling, business processing and information system.