In political science, the waves of democracy or waves of democratization are major surges of democracy that have occurred in history. Although the term...

Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized: dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested...

A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power...

Types of democracy refers to the various governance structures that embody the principles of democracy ("rule by the people") in some way. Democracy is frequently...

Consensus democracy is the application of consensus decision-making and supermajority to the process of legislation in a democracy. It is characterized...

Representative democracy, electoral democracy or indirect democracy is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. Nearly all...

state and the individual should not exist in a totalitarian democracy, and in the event of such a conflict, the state has the moral duty to coerce the...

Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy for different countries according to various definitions of democracy...

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies...

Procedural democracy or proceduralist democracy, proceduralism or hollow democracy is a term used to denote the particular procedures, such as regular...

Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21 and restructured...

(1970–1979), a pluralist democracy is described as a political system where there is more than one center of power. Modern democracies are by definition pluralist...

The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative...

Participatory democracy, participant democracy, participative democracy, or semi-direct democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate...

Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of liberal...

Radical democracy is a type of democracy that advocates the radical extension of equality and liberty. Radical democracy is concerned with a radical extension...

lack of consensus among experts about the exact definition of illiberal democracy or whether it even exists. The rulers of an illiberal democracy may ignore...

Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding...

The Democracy Ranking is an index compiled by the Association for Development and Advancement of the Democracy Award, an Austria-based non-partisan organization...

Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes that shift as much decision-making authority as practical to the organization's...

E-democracy (a blend of the terms electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication...

Democratization of Latin America and the former Eastern Bloc is part of this third wave. Waves of democratization can be followed by waves of de-democratization...

(1994), ISBN 0-8014-9658-6 Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (1996), ISBN 0-8039-9019-7 The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords...

instutions. During the third wave of democratization in the late twentieth century, many new, weakly institutionalized democracies were established; these...

Guided democracy, also called directed democracy and managed democracy, is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian...

Anticipatory democracy is a theory of civics relying on democratic decision making that takes into account predictions of future events that have some...

Defective democracy (or flawed democracy) is a concept that was proposed by the political scientists Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and Aurel S. Croissant...

Defensive democracy is a term referring to the collection of laws, delegated legislation, and court rulings which limit certain rights and freedoms in...

Democracy in Africa is measured according to various definitions of democracy by a variety of indexes, such as V-Dem Democracy indices, and Democracy...

Criticism of democracy, or debate on democracy and the different aspects of how to implement democracy best have been widely discussed. There are both...