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...

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...

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...

(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...

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

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

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

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

Totalitarian democracy is a term popularized by Israeli historian Jacob Leib Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives...

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

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...

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

Participatory democracy, participant democracy or participative democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly...

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

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

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...

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

institutionalized democracies were established; these regimes have been most vulnerable to democratic backsliding. The third wave of autocratization has...

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

legitimacy is based on popular sovereignty. Forms of democracy include representative democracy, direct democracy, and demarchy. These are separated by the way...

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...

Soviet democracy, or council democracy, is a type of democracy in Marxism, in which the rule of the population is exercised by directly elected soviets...

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...

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

Defective democracy is a concept that was proposed by the political scientists Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and Aurel S. Croissant at the beginning of the...

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

Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian...

Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. Deliberative democracy seeks quality...

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