First, the public administration, among numerous other institutions, is rather run autocratically than democratically. Second, it is argued, that power is held in the hands of a few, so-called power elites, that subvert the democratic power by the citizenry. Third, the representative democratic systems based upon the thought of liberalism has brought about unequal economic and societal conditions among citizens , and therewith relativizes the principle of equal access to information to obtain equal opportunities to participate in the democratic processes