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  1. Sep 24, 2021 · The notion of representative democracy has been an influential and relatively dominant understanding of democracy throughout the twentieth century.

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  2. Student Responses. Sample: 4A. Due to the differences in backgrounds and beliefs, the founders of the United States shared often-conflicting views on the role of the federal government in the new representative democracy. However, it is clear that the main intent of the founders best aligns with the model of elite representative democracy.

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  4. the representative's role.2 The second inquiry asks, "What is the role of democracy within our system of constitutional design?" and the response is that democracy should serve either to legitimize or to check government.3 The dominant contemporary response to these topics in the United States favors the idea that democracy serves a ...

  5. The Measurement of Democracy A handful of well-known democracy indices have been created and developed to make the comparison and ranking across regions in the world possible and convenient for researchers and observers, which include Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), Polity IV, and Freedom House, just to name three.

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  6. The binary concepts of democracy and non-democracy, while useful for categorisation for some purposes, are now understood to be overly generalised and non-representative of the many ‘shades’ of regime classification (Collier & Adcock, 1999). Terms

  7. Nov 2, 2023 · In the eyes of its citizens, liberal democracy is connected to at least three promises—the promises of autonomy, equality and rationality. To what extent citizens can view these promises as being fulfilled will affect political trust and support for democracy. The rise of populism and trends towards technocratic government have rightly been interpreted as arising from a gap between normative ...

  8. The paper is divided in six sections, addressing: the nature of democracy building; current challenges to democracy; the crisis of representative democracy as emerging from the mistrust in political institutions; popular participation; democratic practice, with emphasis on divided societies; and capacity development for democratic politics1. 1.

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