Examples of representative democracy in the following topics:
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- According to World Forum on Democracy, electoral democracies now represent 120 of the 192 existing countries and constitute 58.2 percent of the world's population.
- This is different from a representative democracy, in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives.
- As a result, they advocated a representative democracy in the form of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy.
- Representative democracy is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected people representing a group of people.
- For example, three countries which use representative democracy are the United States of America (a representative democracy), the United Kingdom (a constitutional monarchy) and Poland (a republic).
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- The other form is representative democracy, where the whole body of citizens remain the sovereign power but political power is exercised indirectly through elected representatives.
- Most modern democracies are representative democracies, the concept of which arose largely from ideas and institutions that developed during the European Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the American and French Revolutions.
- Another essential part of an "ideal" representative democracy is competitive elections that are fair both substantively and procedurally.
- By contrast, a parliamentary democracy is a representative democracy where government is appointed by, or can be dismissed by, representatives as opposed to a 'presidential rule' wherein the President is both head of state and the head of government and is elected by the voters.
- Some modern democracies that are predominately representative in nature also heavily rely upon forms of political action that are directly democratic.
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- Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.
- Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.
- The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens.
- Most democracies no longer extend different rights to vote on the basis of sex or race.
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- The delegate model of representation is a model of a representative democracy.
- By contrast in the delegate model, the representative is expected to act strictly in according to a mandate from the represented.
- Members of the House of Representatives are elected to represent districts that range in size from the 905,316 people representing the entire state of Montana to 495,304 which represents the entire state of Wyoming.
- Most states have multiple representatives.
- Senators simply represent their states.
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- An election is a decision-making process used in a democracy to choose public office holders based on a vote.
- Elections have been the usual mechanism by which representative democracies have operated since the 17th century.
- Strictly majoritarian systems are rare in modern democracies due to their tendency for suppressing minority views.
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- In democracies, all of the people in a country can vote during elections for representatives or political parties that they prefer.
- The people in democracies can elect representatives who will sit on legislatures such as the Parliament or Congress.
- Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
- An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things.
- Orange represents parliamentary republics.
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- In democracies, all of the people in a country can vote during elections for representatives or political parties that they prefer.
- The people in democracies can elect representatives who will sit on legislatures such as the Parliament or Congress.
- Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
- An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things.
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- In deliberative democracy the aim is for both elected officials and the general public to use deliberation rather than power-struggle as the basis for their vote.
- Deliberative democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision making.
- Deliberative democracy differs from traditional democratic theory in that authentic deliberation, not mere voting, is the primary source of legitimacy for the lawmaking processes.
- Generally, discussion requires a quorum, usually half of the total number of representatives, before discussion can begin, although there are exceptions.
- Since representatives and senators who are present rarely demand quorum calls, debate often continues despite the lack of a majority.
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- "That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, the attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for publick uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good. "
- Popular sovereignty in its modern sense, that is, including all the people and not just noblemen, is an idea that dates to the social contracts school (mid-17th to mid-18th centuries), represented by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), John Locke (1632–1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), author of The Social Contract, a prominent political work that clearly highlighted the ideals of "general will" and further matured the idea of popular sovereignty.
- Popular sovereignty is thus a basic tenet of most democracies.
- The "sovereign" is the rule of law, ideally decided on by direct democracy in an assembly.
- Explain the significance of popular sovereignty and the consent of the governed for liberal democracy
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- In most liberal democracies, advocacy groups tend to use the bureaucracy as the main channel of influence.
- In liberal democracies, bureaucracy is where the decision-making power lies.
- By contrast, lobbyists representing farmers and rural interests seek to maintain or reinforce existing tariffs.