Representative democracy, electoral democracy or indirect democracy is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. Nearly all...
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members of the public. Others, including the many variants of representative democracy, favor more indirect or procedural approaches to collective self-governance...
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Singapore has a multi-party parliamentary system of representative democracy in which the President of Singapore is the head of state and the Prime Minister...
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direct and representative democracy. Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all policy issues à la direct democracy; voters also...
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Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of...
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Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies...
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elected representatives. Elements of direct and representative democracy are combined in this model. Participatory democracy is a type of democracy, which...
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processes. The distance between deliberative democracy and concepts like representative democracy or direct democracy is debated. While some practitioners and...
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E-democracy (a blend of the terms electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication...
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Criticism of democracy, or debate on democracy and the different aspects of how to implement democracy best have been widely discussed. There are both...
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the empire following the end of the Second World War. Modern representative democracies attempt to bridge the gap between Rousseau's depiction of the...
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Look up representative or Rep. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Representative may refer to: Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected...
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liberal or representative democracy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government state that China is a socialist democracy and a people's...
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that representative democracy as it exists is usually linked solely to highly developed capitalist countries. However, newly installed democracies do not...
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equitable distribution of income. Social democracy maintains a commitment to representative and participatory democracy. Common aims include curbing inequality...
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office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices...
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Democratic republic (redirect from Republican democracy)
people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch." Democracy: "A system of government by...
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own unique path to democracy, given that particular country's own social and material conditions. Mao labeled representative democracy in the Western nations...
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Direct election (redirect from Popular vote (representative democracy))
officeholder in question. In a double direct election, the elected representative serves on two councils, typically a lower-tier municipality and an upper-tier...
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Alliance for Representative Democracy is an USA based organization that is a partnership between the Trust for Representative Democracy at the National...
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democratically, Michels considered his argument applicable to representative democracy at large. He believed that "[h]istorical evolution mocks all the...
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himself is not quite consistent in using the word 'democracy', applying it alternately to representative government, universal suffrage or majority-based...
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Sortition (redirect from Aleatoric democracy)
at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method...
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twentieth anniversary edition in 2004. The book argues that representative or "thin" democracy is rooted in an individualistic "rights" perspective that...
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The term "illiberal democracy" describes a governing system that hides its "nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures"...
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The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are democracy indices published by the V-Dem Institute that describe qualities of different democracies. This dataset is...
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Republic (redirect from Republic democracy)
evolved in the United States, where the term is often equated with "representative democracy." This narrower understanding of the term was originally developed...
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represented by the Taishō Democracy Movement (大正デモクラシー運動) and the establishment of the Seitō Naikaku System (政党内閣制), a representative democracy in which the party...
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of land, wealth and status. Some critics of capitalism and/or representative democracy think of the United States and the United Kingdom as oligarchies...
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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...
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