Direct democracy is where the citizens directly influence the decisions of the government.
This is compared to indirect democracy (which is what the US has) where the people elect representatives who represent their interests in the decisions of goverment.
Direct democracy is a form of democracy. This form is people decide policy initiatives directly.
Canada and china are democracies
canada and china are democracies
Both direct democracies and representative democracies involve citizens participating in the decision-making process. In direct democracies, citizens directly vote on laws and policies, while in representative democracies, citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf. Both systems aim to ensure that the government is accountable to the people and that their voices are heard in the decision-making process.
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.
A Democracy in which the people get to vote on a representative for them.
direct and indirect democracy
It was crazy, no control of high populations.
A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, “A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them”
It was direct democracy - the citizens met in fortnightly assembly and decided on issues, which decisions were implemented by the council. Today's democracies are representative democracies - citizens elect members of parliament to direct government.
There are two types of democracies : 1 representative 2 direct
Direct Democracies
It was direct democracy - the citizens met in fortnightly assembly and decided on issues, which decisions were implemented by the council. Today's democracies are representative democracies - citizens elect members of parliament to direct government.