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  • representatives are elected by the public. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United...
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    two persistent, viable political parties are characteristic of liberal democracies. Governmental authority is legitimately exercised only in accordance...
    105 KB (12,075 words) - 00:08, 27 August 2024
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    Democracy (redirect from Democracies)
    necessarily democracies, as republicanism does not specify how the people are to rule. Classically the term "republic" encompassed both democracies and aristocracies...
    179 KB (21,300 words) - 11:45, 3 September 2024
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    differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies. The theory and practice of direct democracy and participation...
    51 KB (5,415 words) - 10:45, 3 September 2024
  • limits on their power. While liberal democracies protect individual rights and freedoms, illiberal democracies do not. Elections in an illiberal democracy...
    33 KB (3,706 words) - 06:06, 16 August 2024
  • In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and...
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    democracy are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies. Different advocates of this theory suggest that several factors are...
    164 KB (20,090 words) - 01:13, 4 September 2024
  • The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a non-profit neoconservative think tank and (since 2019) a registered lobbying organization based in...
    37 KB (3,279 words) - 02:19, 4 September 2024
  • democracy and authoritarianism have some times been characterized as "hybrid democracies", "hybrid regimes" or "competitive authoritarian" states. The political...
    107 KB (11,027 words) - 07:22, 25 August 2024
  • and democracies. While not all democracies are republics (constitutional monarchies, for instance, are not) and not all republics are democracies, common...
    10 KB (976 words) - 01:06, 17 June 2024
  • installed democracies do not seem to be on a path of becoming fully representative democracies. O'Donnell calls the former delegative democracies, for they...
    60 KB (8,302 words) - 08:19, 25 August 2024
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    categorizes each country into one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, and authoritarian regimes. The first Democracy...
    187 KB (2,287 words) - 18:04, 2 September 2024
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    are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies...
    123 KB (12,157 words) - 20:51, 1 September 2024
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    by the victorious Allies. In those countries occupied by the Allied democracies (the United States, United Kingdom, and France) parliamentary constitutions...
    66 KB (5,422 words) - 18:41, 20 August 2024
  • peace theory Tyranny of the majority Voting War referendum Wars between democracies Waves of democracy Region Africa Asia Europe Historical Latin America...
    24 KB (2,656 words) - 07:35, 7 September 2024
  • Two points are required: that there has been a war, and that there are democracies on at least two opposing sides. For many of these entries, whether there...
    23 KB (3,081 words) - 13:17, 5 September 2024
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    implications on the abilities of democracies to function. For example, regulatory capture tends to afflict low-turnout democracies more, blocking popular democratic...
    83 KB (9,831 words) - 19:05, 3 September 2024
  • the Presidency at the expense of Congressional power. Representative democracies often contain political parties, which are groups of politicians with...
    16 KB (1,834 words) - 09:40, 14 July 2024
  • countries in which religion is incorporated into the form of government. Democracies are characterized as secular or religious. The definition of democracy...
    4 KB (464 words) - 20:09, 21 August 2024
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    fair elections, or the violation of individual rights that underpin democracies, especially freedom of expression. Democratic backsliding is the opposite...
    80 KB (7,932 words) - 19:48, 25 August 2024
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