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

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

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

Against Democracy has been applauded for touching on the rarely discussed subject of democracy and its readability to lay readers. Criticism has been...

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

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

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...

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...

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

modern English sense of the word. In the Republic, Plato's Socrates raises a number of criticisms of democracy. He claims that democracy is a danger due to...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Criticism of democracy Political Order in Changing Societies The Limits to Growth Powell Memorandum Trilateral Commission The Crisis of Democracy Trilateral...

the press was fairly free, criticism was allowed", thus maintaining the system of guided democracy. While the actions of the opposition were hampered...

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

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

the concept of whole-process people's democracy as a means to participate in global discourses on democracy, seeking to deflect criticism and improve...

Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments...

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...

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

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to democracy. Democracy – form of government which allows people to participate equally—either...

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

(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...

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...

the violation of individual rights that underpin democracies, especially freedom of expression. Democratic backsliding is the opposite of democratization...