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rep·re·sen·ta·tive democ·ra·cy

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  1. representative democracynoun

    A policy under the rule of people acting on the behalf of and, to a lesser extent, in the interests of the voting blocks by which they were elected.

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  1. Representative democracy

    Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy or representative government, is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies; for example, the United Kingdom is a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, France is a unitary semi-presidential republic, and the United States is a federal presidential republic.It is an element of both the parliamentary and the presidential systems of government and is typically used in a lower chamber such as the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, or Lok Sabha of India, and may be curtailed by constitutional constraints such as an upper chamber. It has been described by some political theorists including Robert A. Dahl, Gregory Houston and Ian Liebenberg as polyarchy. In it the power is in the hands of the representatives who are elected by the people. Political parties are often central to this form of democracy because electoral systems require voters to vote for political parties as opposed to individual representatives.

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  1. Representative democracy

    Representative democracy is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. All modern Western style democracies are various types of representative democracies, for example the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Poland is a parliamentary republic. It is an element of both the parliamentary system or presidential system of government and is typically used in a lower chamber such as the House of Commons or Bundestag, and is generally curtailed by constitutional constraints such as an upper chamber. It has been described by some political theorists as Polyarchy.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of representative democracy in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of representative democracy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of representative democracy in a Sentence

  1. Justin Amash:

    True to Washington's fears, Americans have allowed government officials, under assertions of expediency and party unity, to ignore the most basic tenets of our constitutional order : separation of powers, federalism and the rule of law, the result has been the consolidation of political power and the near disintegration of representative democracy.

  2. Paul Kirk:

    The unlimited amounts of money flooding our political system from a narrow and immensely wealthy slice of American society is the most pernicious internal peril threatening the fundamental tenets of economic, political, moral and social justice and, not least, the fairness and vibrancy of our representative democracy.

  3. Ghida Dagher:

    Yet even as we celebrate these gains, we know we still have a long way to go to achieve representational parity, if we want to create a truly inclusive and representative democracy, then we must invest in these communities to increase New American civic engagement and take a hard look at how our electoral and political systems still favor the white and wealthy.

  4. Louisa Wall:

    We have come a long way and for me it is about representative democracy. We reflect our larger New Zealand population.


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  • الديموقراطية الممثلةArabic
  • repräsentativen DemokratieGerman
  • la democracia representativaSpanish
  • دموکراسی نمایندگیPersian
  • démocratie représentativeFrench
  • प्रतिनिधिक लोकतंत्रHindi
  • regiminis repraesen tativiLatin
  • representatieve democratieDutch
  • temsili demokrasiTurkish

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