Democracy

Government system where political power lies with the people Part of the Politics seriesDemocracy HistoryTheoryMeasuring / Indices / Rankings Types Anticipatory Athenian Cellular Consensus Conservative Cosmopolitan Defensive Deliberative Direct Economic Electronic Empowered Ethnic Grassroots Guided Hybrid regime Illiberal Inclusive Industrial Jacksonian Jeffersonian Liberal Liquid Majoritarian Media Monitory Multiparty Non-partisan Oral Participatory Pluralist Popular Procedural Radical Representative Religious Buddhist Christian Islamic Jewish Mormon Sectarian Semi Social Socialist Sociocracy Sovereign Soviet Substantive Supermajority Totalitarian Whole-process people's Workplace Methods Campaign Consultation Demonstration Election By-election Direct Indirect Primary Recall Snap Systems Legislature Opinion poll Parliament Petition Popular assembly Participatory budgeting Referendum Deliberative Initiative Popular War Sortition Citizens' assembly Jury Voting Region Africa Asia Europe Americas Middle East and North Africa Related topics Anarchism Anti-authoritarianism Criticism of democracy Democracy and economic growth Democracy promotion Democracy-Dictatorship Index Democratic bac