in a oligarchy, power is shared among several people
The two types of democracies are direct democracies, or pure democracies, and indirect democracies, or more often referred to as representative democracies. The two differ in their distribution of political power; in a direct democracy, political power is held by all citizens of the state and in an indirect democracy, political power is held by an elect group of citizens.
direct and indirect democracy
Greece began by having monarchies, then oligarchies, then tyrannies and then democracies. The Greek Government is currently a democracy, but modern democracy finds it's roots in ancient Greece.
Direct Democracy: People represent themselves. Indirect Democracy: People elect representatives to represent them. :)
In democracies, the assembly of the people. of the city-state In oligarchies, the council of the city-state. In tyrannies, the tyrant. In monarchies, the king.
there was no true ruler of all of Greece because a lot of the city states had different governments so they had democracies, monarchies, and oligarchies.
Both are democracies.
European countries had many different political systems throughout history. There were oligarchies, monarchies, tyrants/dictators, democracies, etc.
As each city developed on its own patch of land, it established its own form of government. This developed from petty kings, to oligarchies, to tyrannies, to democracies, and beck to oligarchies, then kingdoms under Alexander the Great's successor-generals, then as cities and provinces part of the Roman Empire.
Rome was late in the peiece - governments of various types - monarchies, oligarchies and democracies had been developed long before Rome emerged from being a loose confederation of hill villages,
Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies - terms we still use today.
Indirect representation refers to a situation where individuals elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf. In this system, citizens do not directly participate in decision-making but instead delegate their authority to elected officials who act on their behalf. Indirect representation is a common feature of representative democracies.