Representative democracy, electoral democracy or indirect democracy is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. Nearly all...

elections. In a direct democracy, the people have the direct authority to deliberate and decide legislation. In a representative democracy, the people choose...

members of the public. Others, including the many variants of representative democracy, favor more indirect or procedural approaches to collective self-governance...

Singapore has a multi-party parliamentary system of representative democracy in which the President of Singapore is the head of state and the Prime Minister...

Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of...

direct and representative democracy. Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all policy issues à la direct democracy; voters also...

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies...

elected representatives. Elements of direct and representative democracy are combined in this model. Participatory democracy is a type of democracy, which...

processes. The distance between deliberative democracy and concepts like representative democracy or direct democracy is debated. While some practitioners and...

Criticism of democracy, or debate on democracy and the different aspects of how to implement democracy best have been widely discussed. There are both...