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Lu -



Quote:


Originally Posted by Ian_Lee

Actually nowadays with a few token countries, almost every country in the world is a democracy.


That completely depends on how you define 'democracy'. If you say 'Democracy=country in which
elections are held regurlarly with a certain degree of fairness' then even the PRC is a democracy,
and Belorussia, Libya, and South Africa before the apartheid was abolished, and North Korea. That
indeed makes quite a number of democracies.



Quote:


Originally Posted by gougou

Republic - a representative democracy in which the people's elected deputies (representatives),
not the people themselves, vote on legislation.


This would make the Netherlands a republic.



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gougou -



Quote:

This would make the Netherlands a republic.

Yeah, the definitions are not very exclusive. Here's the one for democracy:

Democracy - a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but which
is usually exercised indirectly through a system of representation and delegated authority
periodically renewed.

Now if I understand it correctly, this means that a democracy usually is a republic?










mr.stinky -

a democracy is where decisions are made relatively directly by the general population
(or at least the registered voters) through referendums and plebescites.

a republic is where the decisions are delegated to representatives elected by the
electorate.

a democratic republic is usually a dictatorship or authoritarian regime.










Shadowdh -



Quote:

a democratic republic is usually a dictatorship or authoritarian regime.

As I go off to vote today I will keep this in mind when thinking of tony smear... uh I mean
blair... also does this mean that the UK is a republic...??










Lu -



Quote:

a democracy is where decisions are made relatively directly by the general population (or at least
the registered voters) through referendums and plebescites.

a republic is where the decisions are delegated to representatives elected by the
electorate.

a democratic republic is usually a dictatorship or authoritarian regime.

The confusion is only getting bigger.
So according to these definitions, there are no democracies in this world (that I can think of)
except for maybe Switzerland; both the UK and Holland are republics, not democracies; and North
Korea is a dictatorship. Well, at least that one is correct.












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