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.
Structural-Functional Analysis. a system of analysis of social phenomena and processes viewed as parts of a structurally stratified whole, where each structural element has a definite function or purpose.