A representative democracy is also called a?

Answer 1

A rose by any name smells just as sweet.

The terms are its description, each can be refined but will use the same basic terms, and in political philosophy there is no single 'name' for such a government only examples.

A Democracy is generally known as Mobocracy1, or Communistic (Communism)1 and representative is just what it says. The USSR practiced a representative democracy for around 60 years (people were allowed to vote for any one of the two party candidates), the United States converted to a democracy around 19342 so has this form of government for the last 80 or so years (though some would argue the rule of law went out the window way before that). So pick your name for it, but the way it operates has nothing to do with the name.

1Terms from the US Manual on Citizenship Training, quoted below the other response

2Date is when the US Government ordered the destruction of the US Manual on Citizenship Training

Another Answer:

A republic

Please note:

Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff. War Department; Training Manual No. 2000-25 November 30, 1928

This manual supersedes Manual of Citizenship Training The use of the publication "The Constitution of the United States," by Harry Atwood, is by permission and courtesy of the author.

CITIZENSHIP Democracy:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy

CITIZENSHIP Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress. Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world. A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of

(1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their government acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Atwood. Superior to all others.--Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered. Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success. Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy * * * and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."

"By order of the Secretary of War: C.P. Summerall, Major General, Chief of Staff. Official: Lutz Wahl, Major General, The Adjutant General.

Answer 2

the answer is a republic.