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democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate directly decides on policy initiatives, without elected representatives as proxies

not rule themselves unless they directly decide laws and policies. Robert A. Dahl argues that the fundamental democratic principle is that, when it comes

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply Congo, or more infrequently Zaire (its official name

plan is to establish a self-sustaining, large scale settlement and directly democratic, self-governing colony. The motivation behind this is the belief

other libertarian socialists, where it describes the creation of directly democratic structures such as worker cooperatives, people’s assemblies, and

officially the president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is the head of state of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The president is the

Citizens voted directly in these blocks, with a majority of the blocks determining the decision of the assembly; this system was directly democratic with no

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands [zoˈtsi̯aːldemoˌkʁaːtɪʃə paʁˌtaɪ ˈdɔʏtʃlants], SPD [ɛspeːˈdeː]

their free population; in Athens these rights were combined with a directly democratic form of government that was to have a long afterlife in political

Democratic socialism is a left-wing economic and political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with