5 Common Form of Democracy

5 Common Form Of Democracy
1. Direct Democracy (also known as pure democracy) - s a form of democracy in which people
decide policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of modern Western-style
democracies, which are representative democracies. Direct democracy is similar to, but distinct
from, representative democracy, in which people vote for representatives who then enact policy
initiatives.[2]
Depending on the particular system in use, direct democracy might entail passing executive
decisions, the use of sortation, making laws, directly electing or dismissing officials, and
conducting trials. Two leading forms of direct democracy are participatory
democracy and deliberative democracy.
Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative

republic, or psephocracy) is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials
representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.[2] All modern Western-style
democracies are types of representative democracies; for example, theUnited Kingdom is
a crowned republic and Ireland is a parliamentary republic.
Representative democracy is often presented as the only form of democracy possible in mass
societies. It arguably allows for efficient ruling by a sufficiently small number of people on behalf
of the larger number. Representative democracy has been conceptually associated with and
historically instantiated by the political system known as "representative government," which was
born in the 18th century with the French and American revolutions. It is a system in which people
elect their lawmakers (representatives), who are then held accountable to them for their activity
within government.
2. Presidential system is a system of government where a head of government is also head of

state and leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch. The United
States, for instance, has a presidential system. The executive is elected and often titled
"president" and is notresponsible to the legislature and which cannot, in normal
circumstances, dismiss it. The legislature may have the right, in extreme cases, to dismiss the
executive, often through impeachment. However, such dismissals are seen as so rare as not to
contradict a central tenet of presidentialism, that in normal circumstances using normal
means the legislature cannot dismiss the executive.
3. A Parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where

the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from thelegislature (parliament) and is
also held accountable to that legislature. In a parliamentary system, the head of state is normally
a different person from the head of government. This is in contrast to a presidential system in a
democracy, where the head of state often is also the head of government, and most importantly,
the executive branch does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature.
4. Federalism refers to the mixed or compound mode of government, combining a general
government (the central or 'federal' government) with regional governments (provincial,
state, Land, cantonal, territorial or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system. Its
distinctive feature, exemplified in the founding example of modern federalism of the United
States of America under the Constitution of 1789, is a relationship of parity between the two
levels of government established.[1] It can thus be defined as a form of government in which there
is a division of powers between two levels of government of equal status.
5. Dictatorship is a form of government where a group of countries (or Country) is ruled by one
person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entity's power
remains strong. A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism, in which politicians regulate nearly
every aspect of the public and private behavior of citizens. Dictatorships and totalitarianism
generally employ political propaganda to decrease the influence of proponents of alternative
governing systems.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, traditional monarchies gradually declined and disappeared.
Dictatorship and constitutional democracy emerged as the world's two majorforms of
government.

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Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative

2. Presidential system is a system of government where a head of government is also head of

3. A Parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where

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