Democratic centralism is the organisational principle of communist states and of most communist parties to reach dictatorship of the proletariat. In practice...

The Group of Democratic Centralism (Russian: Группа демократического централизма, romanized: Gruppa demokraticheskogo tsentralizma), sometimes called...

autocratization, democratic decline, de-democratization, democratic erosion, democratic decay, democratic recession, democratic regression, and democratic deconsolidation...

core democratic institutions, competitiveness and inclusiveness of polyarchy, freedom of expression, various aspects of governance, democratic norm transgressions...

governing system that hides its "nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures". There is a lack of consensus among experts...

Guided democracy, also called managed democracy, is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some...

[page needed] The extent to which these 18th-century democratic revivalists succeeded in turning the democratic ideals of the ancient Greeks into the dominant...

adopts elements of both consensus decision-making and majority rule. Democratic centralism – an organizational method where members of a political party discuss...

Democratic backsliding is a process of regime change toward autocracy that makes the exercise of political power by the public more arbitrary and repressive...

referendum Democratic backsliding Democratic capitalism Democratic centralism Democratic confederalism Democratic peace theory Democratic republic Democratic socialism...

Mouffe in their book Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, written in 1985. They argue that social movements which attempt...

free population; in Athens these rights were combined with a directly democratic form of government that was to have a long afterlife in political thought...

collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, it did not embody a purely democratic approach, being made up – during the late republic – of former elected...

Oxford University Press. Houston, G F (2001) Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South Africa, Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council...

Christian democratic parties in Australia include the Democratic Labor Party and, arguably, the disbanded Christian Democratic Party. The Democratic Labor...

less democratic epistocracy or a more democratic lottocracy. They have characterized most modern democracies as democratic polyarchies and democratic aristocracies;...

elected democratic leaders. As a result, there is no clear indication of how to determine which factors contribute to economic growth in a democratic country...

Proponents of democratic peace theory argue that both electoral and republican forms of democracy are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified...

rather than Western liberal values. Still others have advanced liberal democratic models of Islamic politics based on pluralism and freedom of thought....

ancient Greek democratic city-state, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions...

incomplete list of wars between entities that have a constitutionally democratic form of government and actually practice it. Two points are required:...

authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction. Whether and to what...

introduce sweeping domestic reforms. Scholars debate the precise number of democratic waves. Huntington describes three waves: the first "slow" wave of the...

decision-making and majority rule. Deliberative democracy differs from traditional democratic theory in that authentic deliberation, not mere voting, is the primary...

quantitative and comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions. The methodology for assessing democracy used...

democracy, with its centering of electoral processes as the basis of democratic legitimacy, is often contrasted with substantive or participatory democracy...

to subtilize the distinctions between totalitarian, authoritarian, and democratic political systems. It is based on the concept of embedded democracy. While...

emergence of ochlocracy in democratic societies with the decadence of democracy in neoliberalism in which "the democratic role of the people has been...

democratisation occurred in African states like Ghana, when governments were democratically elected through party systems, which they present to be a hallmark of...

by F Bealey, 1999 Kazemzadeh, Hamed (January 2020). "Hamed Kazemzadeh: Democratic platform in Social Pluralism". Internal Journal of Acpcs, Winter No.10...