World Democracy Online

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Welcome to World Democracy Online.  Democracy is a political form of government carried out either directly by the people (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people, as if the people and the elected person were one, linear line of decisions. (representative democracy).  Some have argued for a future evolution of democracy – that being a true participatory (non representative) democracy – in which each adult person is given one vote (one say) in how things should be run.

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There are several varieties of democracy, some of which provide better representation and more freedoms for their citizens than others. However, if any democracy is not carefully legislated – through the use of balances – to avoid an uneven distribution of political power, such as the separation of powers, then a branch of the system of rule could accumulate power and become harmful to the democracy itself.

The “majority rule” is often described as a characteristic feature of democracy, but without responsible government or constitutional protections of individual liberties from democratic power, it is possible for dissenting individuals to be oppressed by the “tyranny of the majority”. An essential process in representative democracies is competitive elections that are fair both substantively and procedurally. Furthermore, freedom of political expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press are essential so that citizens are informed and able to vote in their personal interests.

Though the term “democracy” is typically used in the context of a political state, the principles are applicable to private organizations and other groups also. The concept of representative democracy arose largely from ideas and institutions that developed during the European Middle Ages and the Age of Enlightenment and in the American and French Revolutions.

Democracy has been called the “last form of government” and has spread considerably across the globe. With the rise of the Internet – democracy meshes neatly with the pluralistic ideals of decentralized groups of people with common mindsets.

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