Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public...

elections. In a direct democracy, the people have the direct authority to deliberate and decide legislation. In a representative democracy, the people choose...

members of the public. Others, including the many variants of representative democracy, favor more indirect or procedural approaches to collective self-governance...

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...

elected representatives. Elements of direct and representative democracy are combined in this model. Participatory democracy is a type of democracy, which...

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...

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

processes. The distance between deliberative democracy and concepts like representative democracy or direct democracy is debated. While some practitioners and...

Liberal democracy, Western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a representative democracy with...

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

the empire following the end of the Second World War. Modern representative democracies attempt to bridge the gap between Rousseau's depiction of the...

liberal or representative democracy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government state that China is a socialist democracy and a people's...

Look up representative or Rep. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Representative may refer to: Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected...

Alliance for Representative Democracy is an USA based organization that is a partnership between the Trust for Representative Democracy at the National...

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

office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices...

that representative democracy as it exists is usually linked solely to highly developed capitalist countries. However, newly installed democracies do not...

The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are democracy indices published by the V-Dem Institute that describe qualities of different democracies. This dataset is...

policies promoting social equality. Social democracy maintains a commitment to representative and participatory democracy. Common aims include curbing inequality...

stochocracy, aleatoric democracy, democratic lottery, and lottocracy) is the selection of public officials or jurors using a random representative sample. In ancient...

own unique path to democracy, given that particular country's own social and material conditions. Mao labeled representative democracy in the Western nations...

The term "illiberal democracy" describes a governing system that hides its "nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures"...

officeholder in question. In a double direct election, the elected representative serves on two councils, typically a lower-tier municipality and an upper-tier...

people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch." Democracy: "A system of government by...

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...

democratically, Michels considered his argument applicable to representative democracy at large. He believed that "[h]istorical evolution mocks all the...

twentieth anniversary edition in 2004. The book argues that representative or "thin" democracy is rooted in an individualistic "rights" perspective that...

guide to democracy. Democracy – form of government which allows people to participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the...

of land, wealth and status. Some critics of capitalism and/or representative democracy think of the United States and the United Kingdom as oligarchies...

himself is not quite consistent in using the word 'democracy', applying it alternately to representative government, universal suffrage or majority-based...