Representative Democracy

Representative Democracy in Election Law

Democracy in which the people do not exercise power directly but rather through representatives, elected periodically through free, secret and universal suffrage.

Concept of Representative Democracy

Note: explore also the meaning of this legal term in the American Ecyclopedia of Law.

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See Also

• Democracy
• Citizenship

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See Also

• Election Law
• Electoral Laws
• Electoral Legislation

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Representative democracy

Concept of Representative democracy

See the dictionary definition of Representative democracy.

Characteristics of Representative democracy

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Translation of Representative democracy

• Spanish: Democracia representativa
• French: Démocratie représentative
• German: Repräsentative Demokratie
• Italian: Democrazia rappresentativa
• Portuguese: Democracia representativa
• Polish: Demokracja przedstawicielska

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See also

• Parliamentary system
• Parliament
• National parliament
• Regional parliament
• Election
• Presidential election
• European election
• Regional election
• Local election
• National election
• Parliamentary election
• Early election

• Indirect democracy
• Parliamentary democracy