Yes.
Over a period of a thousand years it went from Monarchy to Oligarchy to Tyranny to Oligarchy to Limited Democracy to Direct Democracy to broad-based Oligarchy to Direct Democracy to Oligarchy to Direct Democracy etc etc.
representative democrazy
First a king, then an aristocracy, then a tyrant, then a democracy, then an oligarchy, then a democracy, then an oligarchy, then a democracy, then a king.
In a democracy people vote, whereas in an autocracy or oligarchy, they do not vote. Since any influence by voting, however minute, is present in a democracy and absent from an autocracy or oligarchy, it gives more power to the voter by dint of being greater than zero.
Their territory was too large to govern by democracy
It started as a monarchy, became an oligarchy, then a tyranny, then limited democracy, then an oligarchy, then a radical democracy, then a limited democracy.
Monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, limited democracy, radical democracy, oligarchy, limited democracy,.
Government by a group; and not by a monarch. democracy is an oligarchy.
Government by a group; and not by a monarch. democracy is an oligarchy.
It started as a monarchy, became an oligarchy, then a tyranny, then limited democracy, then an oligarchy, then a radical democracy, then a limited democracy.
oligarchy
The Spartan governent was a fusion of monarchy (the kings), oligarchy (the Gerousia) and democracy (the assembly/Ecclesia).