what is the most important in democracy?
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The most important in democracy is legal equality and political freedom. Without it, there is no real democracy.
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Democracy has played a vital role in the story of civilization, helping transform the world from power structures of monarchy, empire, and conquest into a popular rule, self-determination, and peaceful co-existence.
A direct form of democracy was initially practiced in ancient Greece, but there were many slaves in that society, and hardly anyone was a citizen and able to participate. Democracy then vanished until its re-emergence as ‘representative democracy’ in the late 18th century. Since then it has been generally understood that modern human history follows a trend towards greater democracy, with some scholars describing the phenomenon taking place in three waves.
The first wave, between the late 18th century and 1918, saw the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, the gradual emergence of democracy in Britain, Bolivarian revolutions establishing democracies in South America, and the break-up of German, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires after World War 1 into democratic republics.
The second wave, between 1945 and 1960, saw the reorganization of the defeated axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan into strong democracies, and decolonization unfolding across the world, creating independent and largely democratic nations.
The third wave from 1975 to 1991, saw the end of dictatorships in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil, democratic transitions in Taiwan and South Korea, and the eventual collapse of the USSR creating free, democratic, Eastern European states.
But since 1991, by contrast, there has been what Larry Diamond calls a ‘democratic recession, as ex-Warsaw Pact nations, such as Russia, Hungary, and others have slid back into authoritarianism.