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Representative democracy
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Type of democracy principled on elected representation
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Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy or electoral democracy, is a type of democracy where elected delegates represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary...

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Form of government
Types of democracy
Subclass of
Democracy
Different from
Technocracy
Facet of
Liberal democracy
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