form of direct democracy

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• Direct democracy — Part of the Politics series Democracy History · Vari …   Wikipedia

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• direct democracy —    Popular self government, characterised by the direct and continuous participation of citizens in the running of government and the taking of decisions. Direct democracy as practised in Ancient Greece involved all the citizens coming together… …   Glossary of UK Government and Politics

• direct democracy — /dərɛkt dəˈmɒkrəsi/ (say duhrekt duh mokruhsee) noun a form of democracy in which issues are decided by a direct vote of all the members of the community (opposed to representative democracy) …  

• History of direct democracy in the United States — The history of direct democracy amongst non Native Americans in the United States dates from the 1630s in the New England Colonies.[citation needed] Some New England town meetings still carry on that tradition. Contents 1 Progressive Era 2 …   Wikipedia

• Representative direct democracy — is a combination of direct democracy and representative democracy. In representative direct democracy there are representatives that vote on behalf of the citizen, as long as they do not choose to vote themselves. In other words, it works just… …   Wikipedia

• Democracy — For other uses, see Democracy (disambiguation) and Democratic Party (disambiguation). A woman casts her vote in the second round of the French presidential election of 2007 …   Wikipedia

• Direct representation — Direct representation[1] or proxy representation[2] is a proposed form of representative democracy where each representative s vote is weighted in proportion to the number of citizens who have chosen that candidate to represent them. This is in… …   Wikipedia

• Democracy House Project — is a non profit organization founded by Professor Jeffrey Nielsen of Westminster College, Salt Lake City and Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. The Project is an educational initiative using his peer based model to teach political literacy in… …   Wikipedia

• democracy — /di mok reuh see/, n., pl. democracies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 2. a state… …   Universalium

• Form of government — A system of government is a term that refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized in order to exert its powers over a Community politics. [http://assets.cambridge.org/052184/3162/excerpt/0521843162… …   Wikipedia