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Nordic cross – Nordic model social democracy; Olive tree – peace, community, health; Parthenon – democracy; ☮ Peace sign – peace, pacifism, nuclear disarmament, democracy; Plough – communism, agrarian socialism, peasant movement, peasants rights; Poppy – remembrance, WW1 and WW2; Protest sign - democracy and resistance to tyranny
Print/export Download as PDF ... Note: this chart represents the de jure systems of government, not the de facto degree of democracy.
Democracy: Democracy, meaning "rule of the people", is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as "rule of the majority".
Democracies and dictatorships in 2008 [1] Democracies and dictatorships in 1988 [1]. Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), [1] index of democracy and dictatorship [2] or simply the DD index [3] or the DD datasets was the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al. (2010), and further developed and maintained by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland (2009). [4]
In political history, the term directory, in French directoire, is applied to high collegial institutions of state composed of members styled director.Early directorial systems were the Ambrosian Republic (1447-1450), the Bohemian Revolt (1618–1620), New England Confederation (1643–1686), partially in First Stadtholderless Period of Dutch Republic (1650–1672), Pennsylvania Constitution ...
Too many want a dictatorship. Too many leaders pander to people’s worst instincts. In a recent CNN op-ed, former Judge J. Michael Luttig explains how the American experiment can soon fail.
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.. The work studied the roots of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in different societies, looking especially at the ways in which industrialization and the pre-existing agrarian regimes interacted to produce those different political outcomes.
The remarks come one week after former President Donald Trump suggested the retiring general should be killed.