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  2. Direct democracy - Wikipedia

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    Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate directly decides on police initiatives, without elected representatives as proxies, as opposed to the representative democracy model which occurs in the majority of established democracies.

  3. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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  4. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  5. List of direct democracy parties - Wikipedia

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    Freedom and Direct Democracy; Public Affairs Estonia. Conservative People's Party of Estonia; Estonian Greens France. Parti Pirate Finland. Change 2011; Movement Now Germany. Democracy in Motion; dieBasis; Freie Wähler Hungary. Party of Internet Democracy Iceland. Left-Green Movement; Humanist Party Ireland. Direct Democracy Ireland Italy ...

  6. List of electoral systems by country - Wikipedia

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    2.3 Countries with limited recognition. ... Direct representation ... Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights This page links to a table and a world map that is ...

  7. Types of democracy - Wikipedia

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    A direct democracy, or pure democracy, is a type of democracy where the people govern directly, by voting on laws and policies. It requires wide participation of citizens in politics. [ 4 ] Athenian democracy , or classical democracy, refers to a direct democracy developed in ancient times in the Greek city-state of Athens.

  8. Voters in many countries sceptical of democracy, poll shows

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    Voters in many countries are suffering a crisis of faith in their democracies and institutions, a survey by a governance watchdog showed, painting a bleak picture in a year in which more than half ...

  9. Democracy - Wikipedia

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    These democracies, which combine elements of representative democracy and direct democracy, are termed semi-direct democracies or participatory democracies. Examples include Switzerland and some U.S. states, where frequent use is made of referendums and initiatives. The Swiss confederation is a semi-direct democracy. [191]