Define Democracy. what are the main kind of democracy
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Liberal/Constitutional Democracy: this has nothing with the political ideal of liberalism, but instead merely refers to a democracy in which certain liberties are constitutionally protected in order to prevent a ‘tyranny of the majority’. These are also always secular. See: most democracies the world over.
Representative Democracy: a system of democracy in which the people elect representatives who make the actual decisions. See: all democracies in existence
Direct Democracy: a system in which decisions are made directly by the people through referendums. No democracy uses purely direct democracy, but some democracies (such as Switzerland and California) use it to a large degree.
Theocratic Democracy: a system in which public representatives hold power alongside religious officials. See: Iran
Federal Democracy: a system in which different layers of government make decisions independently of one another, and each layer is constitutionally protected - meaning they share sovereignty. See: the USA, Germany, Brazil, Belgium…
Unitary Democracy: a system in which one central layer of government is the only constitutionally protected layer. It may therefore overrule all other decision making bodies in the democracy. See: the UK, France, Netherlands, Ireland…
Illiberal Democracy: a system in which people may vote, but what their representatives due to not very transparent. The people also have a lack of civil liberties. Also may be a system in which different votes are weighted differently. See: German Empire (the ‘2nd Reich’, lasted from 1870–1918), Roman Republic (the prelude to the Roman Empire, not the revolutionary republic of the 19th century based in Rome that lasted less than a year)…
(Anarcho-)Communism: many proponents of the anarchist left accept that some people have to hold power (e.g. factory managers in a collectivised factory), and believe that these people should therefore be elected rather than having an employer/employee dynamic in the workplace. Meanwhile, the authoritarian far left agree with this, and with an ‘elected’ central government. This makes these systems sort of democratic. See: Revolutionary Catalonia, Ukrainian Free Territory (both revolutionary anarchist states, existed during the Spanish Civil War and Russian Civil War respectively), China
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❇️Democracy:-
It is a system in which the government of a country is elected by the people.
❇️Different types of democracies:-
- Direct democracy.
- Representative democracy.
- Constitutional democracy.
- Monitory democracy.
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