Democracy

Yes, if you mean a country such as the U.S. or European Union, for example. In the U.S. our country (U.S.) offers equality and freedom, supported by free and verifiable elections of a country leader, representatives and in some cases state democracies of the same model.

Do realize that democracy is a political system--more than just a way of life. There are many forms of democracy across the world.

Being equal before the law and innocent until proven guilty, freedom of religion, separation of church and state are things provided in our basic constitution and laws.

Technically it could be argued that the U.S. is more of a Republic, which provides freedoms to elect representatives that are given power to govern on our behalf or in interest of our people and state (republicanism).

It could be argued that the only true democracy was that started by the Greeks where their citizens often had direct roles in government instead of representatives.

Yes Ethiopia is a Democracy.

In parliamentary democracies, the Head of Government is not directly elected by the voters nor elected by an electoral college. Instead, the composition of the government is indirectly determined by the composition of the national or federal legislature - the executive draws its power and depends upon the support of the legislature to govern.

Usually in parliamentary democracies, a Prime Minister, Premier or very rarely a President (like in South Africa) is elected by the national legislature immediately after legislative elections. As such, rather than fighting to win a single national office, political parties and coalitions fight to win more than half of the seats in the national legislature (an overall majority) so as to ensure their preferred candidate for Prime Minister/Premier/President will be elected.

This system also means that an incumbent Head of Government can be removed and replaced - possibly by a candidate from a completely different party, and not necessarily the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister/Vice-President - without the need to call an election, if the balance of power in the legislature changes, though this is rare.

In contrast, in presidential systems, a single man or woman is elected by the public to lead the nation and form a government for a fixed term in office, and can usually only be removed by impeachment, resignation or death. Whereas in parliamentary systems the Head of Government has to resign if he or she loses the support of the legislature, in a presidential system, he or she can continue to govern and lead a government even against a hostile legislature. In presidential systems, the President is usually replaced (in the event of their departure before a scheduled election) by a candidate from a strict line of succession, almost always from the same party. Presidential systems also usually feature fixed-term elections (e.g., every four years), whereas in most parliamentary systems, elections are usually held within a maximum term (e.g., must be held on or any day before the fourth anniversary of the last election as the government desires). Presidents may also have the power of veto over legislatures in presidential systems, whereas in parliamentary systems, the Head of Government's power of veto stems from his or her direct control over the legislature.

Very rarely, countries can have both parliamentary and presidential systems (a semi-presidential system). France is such a country, where the Prime Minister and Cabinet are chosen as in a parliamentary system, but the President is chosen as in a presidential system, and government responsibilities are divided between the two. Usually, when the President also controls the legislature, he or she will be the effective leader of the nation - however, should he or she lose control of the legislature in a legislative election, then unlike in parliamentary systems they will remain in office, but unlike in presidential systems, the opposition will form a government. In those situations, the President is usually relegated to managing the nation's foreign policy only.

No country is ruled by pure democracy, because it can only be practiced in a Socialist nation. Some nations claim to be socialist, but none are.

An electoral democracy is a state whose government is technically determined by popular sovereignty. In other words, people within that country decide who will govern them, or have the right and ability to vote. Many times, however, democracies are democratic in name only. Elections may be rigged or there may be no real political competition or opposition party. A liberal democracy is one in which both popular sovereignty and liberty are present. Civil liberties place restraints on government. These restraints often come in the form of civil society or institutions that are created to monitor governments and keep them from getting too powerful. A substantive democracy is a functioning democracy. For example, democracy in the US is a representative kind: American citizens elect people to represent them in government and to create legislature. A direct democracy is a New England town meeting sort, in which people vote directly on every matter which concerns them. This is not particularly feasible at a large, national level.

Both. they are a multiparty-democracy, where some are republican and some are democratic.

Voting began in 1776 when America broke away from Great Britain. At the time only white males of a certain religion could vote.

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At town hall meetings, the citizens get to interface more directly with the politicians and take a more active role in their government.

Socrates played a crucial role in shaping democratic thought through his method of dialectical questioning, which encouraged critical thinking and self-examination among citizens. By challenging established norms and promoting the idea that knowledge and virtue are essential for a just society, he laid the groundwork for democratic ideals. His emphasis on individual moral responsibility and the importance of civic engagement influenced later philosophers and democratic theorists. Although Socrates himself did not support democracy in practice, his teachings inspired the values that underpin democratic governance.

Social democracy is based on the philosophy of reformism, which means improving society through government reforms to the economy and political system.

There are a few key concepts of social democracy, the first being the welfare state. The second is the recognition of labor rights via collective bargaining arrangements between trade unions and businesses. The third concept is support for some public ownership of large monopolies or public goods.

Social democracy generally supports a capitalist mixed economy.

democracy make our life better because it allows us to vote if there is someone from your government that you don't like you can vote for other person that you like.I think from democracy we have good food,clothing and shelters.Because if we don't have good government then how can our country settle down.

The Hundred Years' War changed the governments of the both England an France. In England, Parliament's power grew because the king needed Parliament's approval to raise money to pay for the costly war.

The athenian democracy was the first known democracy in written history. From this new political climate arose new ideas that are still used today such as the separation of religion from government. Such a political environment allowed historical writings, science, free thinking and philosophy to flourish.

State governments use their powers to experiment with new policies.

1. Peace and Security in the country.
2. A functioning impartial media which informs the citizens of things happening both within the region and globally.
3. A system of engaging the people's wills into action.
4. A willing population.
5. An at least 80% literate nation, Democracy is useless with illiterate population who doesn't know whom to choose.

Democracies usually tend to be more stable because if the people do not like their leaders they can peacefully remove them from office through their vote. However dictators usually must be removed by force and those attempts have often led to civil wars. Even though there can be civil wars in democracies it's less likely to occur when compared to dictatorships and absolute monarchies.

The countries that follow Republic:

· Australia

· Brazil

· Canada

· Denmark

· France

· Germany

· Hungary

· Ireland

· Italy

· Jamaica

· Japan

· Mexico

· New Zealand

· Norway

· South Africa

· Sweden

. Lebanon

The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights

Poland

all of the above

* In the past 40 years, democracy has expanded significantly (in what scientists have called "waves") with countries in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s), South America (in the 1980s and early 1990s) and a number of countries in East-Central Europe and a few in East Asia (early-to-mid 1990s) moved towards democracy, many with astounding successes (some of them turning from totalitarian regimes to fully democratic and free open societies in just a few years). However, many other states have failed going on this path, with one kind of authoritarianism being replaced by another (as was the situation in Central Asia, Russia, China etc. etc.). There is a whole transitology debate going on in the field of comparative politics, on whether we can speak of a movement towards democratization or if there are rather more paths that states follow. Search for Linz and Stepan's book on Problems of Democratic Transition... and for Carothers' 2002 article (The end of the Transition Paradigm) for the competing understandings on democratization. More, I find the argument below as nothing more than a poorly made-out marxist-conspiratological critique made by somebody with no connection to politics - there are "non-powers", very poor countries, that are democratic such as Benin, Ghana or Mongolia, and rich countries (world powers) which are miserably undemocratic (such as Russia or China)

* No, we are not moving towards democracy at a global level because democracy is being concentrated in some particular regions of the world for their own citizens and the people of the rest of the world are being exploited as their subjects of experimentation either as weapon testing laboratories or others.The people of developing countries still feel democracy as a dream who are always in the hands of global powers to become political or human subjects of experimentation.

Representative democracy

the breadbasket of the world

he rebuilt the city of Athens

Define regular democracy. A democracy is a government by the people. A direct democracy is a type of democracy.