A democracy involves characteristics such as power and civic responsibility being exercised through elected officials. Socialism involves government ownership of productive resources, and a republic implies that an elected official is referred to as the head of state.
Ireland is a republic, as it has a president and it is a democracy as the leaders of Ireland, including the president, are elected.
An indirect democracy has elected representatives that are chosen by the people. It is also known as a republic or representative democracy.
No.The U.S. though once a Democratic Republic, is now run by Oligarchy. Socialism has no place in the society, nor does democracy. The Democracy of the U.S. is a sham. This is evidenced by the latest documentary of Alex Jones "The fall of the Republic" as well as several other works by notable Journalists such as John Pilger and Peter Joseph.
Not well. The general populace is against it. The USA is a Republic that has been called a Democracy since the 60's.
Socialism
Hungary is a democracy and a republic.
a republic is a absolute democracy
You can have a socialist democracy. A democracy makes decisions based on instructions from voters and socialism intends to take the production of industry and hand it out to people with equality in mind.
You haven't given what the comparison is with socialism.
socialism
Any variety of socialism that is based on direct democracy or representative democracy for managing the economy or individual enterprises. Alternatively, it is a political philosophy that advocates socialism by using democratic mechanisms and is opposed to Communism.
No it does not. They are a republic and not a democracy. There is no head of state in a republic.