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<blockquote>''This page is about the ideology that advocates for a political system based on voting. For the ideology of the US Democratic Party see [[File:Synclib.png]] [[Syncretic Liberalism]], [[File:3way.png]] [[Third Way]] or [[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]].''</blockquote>

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|title = [[File:Dem.png]] Democracy

|image = Democracy-staswalle.png

|caption = "Let's decide this by a vote."

|aliases = Democracy without adjectives <br> Majoritarianism <br> Dem <br> Democratism (wrongly) <br> Rule of the People <br> Small-d democrat <br> By the people <br> Laocracy <br> Rule of at least 50.000000...1%<br>[[:Ochlocracy|Tyranny of the Majority]] (pejoratively)<br>

Nation-popularity-contest-ism (pejoratively)<br>[[Kakistocracy|Rule of the Retarded]] (by [[File:React.png]] [[Reactionarism|Rajneesh]])<br>The God that Failed (by [[File:Hans Hermann Hoppe.png]] [[Hoppeanism|Hoppe]])<br>[[File:Djew.png]] Jewish Conspiracy (by [[File:Hitler.png]] [[National Socialism|Hitler]])

|alignments = [[File:Nonquadrant.png]] [[NonQuad]]<br>

[[File:Dem.png]] [[:Category:Democratic|Democratic]]

|influences =

[[File:Equality.png]] {{PCBA|Egalitarianism}} (Modern)<br>

|influenced =

[[File:Authdem.png]] [[Authoritarian Democracy]]<br>

[[File:Cdem.png]] [[Christian Democracy]] <br>

[[File:Confess.png]] [[Confessionalism]] <br>

[[File:Islamic_Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy]] <br>

[[File:Liqdem.png]] [[Liquid Democracy]]<br>

[[File:Raddem.png]] [[Radical Democracy]]<br>

[[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]]<br>

[[File:Demtrans.png]] [[Democratic Transhumanism]]<br>

[[File: Kemal.png]] [[Kemalism]]<br>

[[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]]<br>

[[File: Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism]]<br>

[[File:EndecjaPix.png]] [[National Democracy]] (some)<br>

[[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism]]<br>

[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism]] (usually)<br>

[[File:Zio.png]] [[Zionism]] <br>

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|theorists =*[[File:Athdem.png]] [[Athenian Democracy|Cleisthenes]] (570-508 BC) [[File:Cball-Greece.png]] Ancient Greece

*[[File:Monkeyzz-Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] (1712-1778) [[File:Cball-FranceKingdom.png]] Kingdom of France

|greatest_achievement = Rise as the second main political ideology and rivaling Authoritarianism in the modern era

|likes=Voting <br> Elections

|dislikes =Undemocratic systems of rule}}

'''Democracy''' ('''Dem''') is a non-quadrant ball used to represent democracy without any more adjectives. Dem believes that the people residing within a state all have the right to decide rules, policies, leaders, etc. based off what most people want. Dem is also not to be confused with [[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism]].

== Variants ==

=== [[File:Dem.png]] Representative Democracy===

'''Representative democracy''' or indirect democracy is a form of government in which the people elect representatives who administer, establish and execute all the interests of the population. This is by far the most common variant, with almost all established democracies currently using it.

===[[File:Semidirect.png]] Semi-Direct Democracy===

'''Semi-direct democracy''' is a variant of democracy that combines direct and representative democracy. In this system, the rulers are elected by the people, but the citizens maintain sovereignty through, for example: referendum, public consultation, popular initiative and revocation of the mandate. It is currently practiced in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and at the local level in most of the United States.

===[[File:Directdem.png]] Direct Democracy===

'''Direct democracy''' is a variant where the population is given full control over policy making rather then having to elect legislators like in a Representative Democracy. Historically practiced in Ancient Greece in the city of [[File: Athdem.png]] [[Athenian Democracy|Athens]], [[File:Jack.png]] [[Jacobinism|Revolutionary France]] and the [[File:Soc.png]] [[Socialism|Paris Commune]], it is nowadays practiced in the autonomous region of [[File:Rojava.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism|Rojava]] and in [[File:Zapa.png]] [[Neozapatismo|Chiapas]].

===[[File:DefDem.png]] Defensive Democracy ===

'''Defensive democracy''' is a term referring to the collection of laws, delegated legislation, and court rulings which limit certain rights and freedoms in a democratic society in order to protect the existence of the state, its democratic character, institutions and human rights. The term describes a major conflict that may emerge in a democratic country between compliance with democratic values, particularly freedom of association and the right to be elected, and between preventing anti-democratic parties, groups and persons from abusing these principles.

In certain democratic states there are additional special distinctions, supported by a notable section of the population, which justify the use of defensive democracy. However, the question of in what situations the use of defensive democracy is justified without this being considered excessive repression of civil rights is disputed. To some extent this can be argued to be a form of [[File: Authdem.png]] [[Authoritarian Democracy]].

=== [[File:Antiparty.png]] Non-Partisan Democracy ===

=== Demobureaucracy ===

|quote= But to fear the creation of a domineering, illiberal officialism as a result of the studies I am here proposing is to miss altogether the principle upon which I wish most to insist. That principle is, that administration in the United States must be at all points sensitive to public opinion. A body of thoroughly trained officials serving during good behavior we must have in any case: that is a plain business necessity. But the apprehension that such a body will be anything un-American clears away the moment it is asked. What is to constitute good behavior? For that question obviously carries its own answer on its face. Steady, hearty allegiance to the policy of the government they serve will constitute good behavior. That policy will have no taint of officialism about it. It will not be the creation of permanent officials, but of statesmen whose responsibility to public opinion will be direct and inevitable. Bureaucracy can exist only where the whole service of the state is removed from the common political life of the people, its chiefs as well as its rank and file. Its motives, its objects, its policy, its standards, must be bureaucratic. It would be difficult to point out any examples of impudent exclusiveness and arbitrariness on the part of officials doing service under a chief of department who really served the people, as all our chiefs of departments must be made to do. It would be easy, on the other hand, to adduce other instances like that of the influence of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Friedrich_Karl_vom_und_zum_Stein Stein] in Prussia, where the leadership of one statesman imbued with true public spirit transformed arrogant and perfunctory bureaux into public-spirited instruments of just government.

|speaker= [[File:Woodrow.png]] [[Bull Moose Progressivism|Woodrow Wilson]]

|source = [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2139277 ''The Study of Administration'', 1887]

=== [[File:DemocraticGlobalization.png]] Democratic Globalization ===

=== [[File:DemCentral.png]] Democratic Centralism ===

'''Democratic Centralism''' is a practice in which political decisions reached by voting processes are binding upon all members of the political party. It is mainly associated with Leninism, wherein the party's political vanguard of professional revolutionaries practized democratic centralism to elect leaders and officers, determine policy through free discussion, and decisively realize it through united action. Democratic centralism has also been practiced by social democratic and democratic socialist parties as well.

=== Demobureaucracy ===

===Friends===

*[[File: Thar.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism]] - A huge fan of mine.

*[[File: Cdem.png]] [[Christian Democracy]] & [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy]] - Theocracies but based.

*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] - Socialism but based.

*[[File:Demtrans.png]] [[Democratic Transhumanism]] - Transhumanism but based.

*[[File:World Federalism2.png|frameless]] [[World Federalism]] - A global democratic state? Based.

* Every explicitly democratic ideology.

*[[File: Authdem.png]] [[Authoritarian Democracy]] - My weird child.

*[[File:DemML.png]] [[Authoritarian Democracy|People’s Democracy]] - Another weird child.

*[[File:Ochlo.png]] [[Ochlocracy]] - You're a sociopath, but at least you do care about democracy.

*[[File:Emon.png]] [[Elective Monarchism]] - The only good form of monarchism. Sadly still a monarch.

*[[File:Kak.png]] [[Kakistocracy]] - You like the people just like me, but you're making me look bad.

*[[File:3princ.png]] [[Tridemism]] [[File:3princ-col.png]] - My Georgist and nationalist counterpart... who apparently doesn't mind simping for authoritarian.

*[[File:Jacobin.png]] [[Jacobinism]] - Similar to the two above, but French.

*[[File:Demcr.png]] [[Syncretic Liberalism|Democratism]] - Please get rid of the electoral college and watch out for [[File:Corp.png]] [[Corporatocracy|his]] influence, and then you will fully live up to your name. But at least you try.

*[[File:Parti.png]] [[Particracy]] - It's not like I hate the concept of political parties, but in many places, you wound up causing a lot of harm to the democratic process. Also, your authoritarian variants are obviously pretty cringe.

*[[File:Soc.png]] [[Socialism]] - I understand that you are democratic both in theory and philosophy, but several of your children [[File:Statesoc.png]] [[File:ML.png]] [[File:Stalin.png]] [[File:Mao.png]] [[File:Dengf.png]] are authoritarian...

*[[File:Pop.png]] [[Populism]] - I don’t really dislike you as you can help me sometimes, but some authoritarianists often use you to achieve their goals.

===Enemies===

*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism]] - No, your little cloested "vanguard" oligarchy is not a democracy lol.

*[[File: Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - Can't handle just one vote?

*[[File: Hoppef.png]] [[Hoppeanism]] - He wants to physically remove me.

*[[File:Ego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism]] - No.

*[[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Left Anarchism]] - NO!

*[[File:Anfashf.png]] [[Anarcho-Fascism]] - Just... Why???

*[[File:Prim.png]] [[Primal Primitivism]] - Animals don't deserve voting rights due to lack of reasoning.

*[[File:Darwinist.png]] [[Social Darwinism]] - How is this even supposed to work?

*[[File: Monarch.png]] [[Monarchism]] - Why do we have a [[File:Emon.png]] [[Elective Monarchism|child]] anyways?

*[[File:Technocracy.png]] [[Technocracy]] - Thinks he's soooo smart and not just fancy [[File:Oligarchy.png]] [[Oligarchy]].

*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[File:Caesar.png]] [[File: Bonaparte.png]] [[National Socialism|Fo]][[Caesarism|ol]][[Bonapartism|s]] and more - Those guys used me to destroy me. But they failed and killed themselves, got killed or exiled, respectively.

*[[File:Ilminism.png]] [[Ilminism]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising May 18th 1980] NEVER FORGET!

*[[File: Juche.png]] [[Juche]] - Stop saying you’re democratic as you never listen to the people!

*[[File: Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism]] - Are you freaking kidding me!? Stop terrorizing people and trying to destroy me, you terrorist!

*[[File: Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] - Dude, you're not even spreading me. All you do is create puppet dictatorships and rig foreign elections. Now people won't trust me because of you. Stay away from me.

**[[File: Necon.png]] - How am I harming you? I bomb other countries JUST to set up you. Give me one example of a dictator I set up.

***[[File: Dem.png]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change Here.]

*[[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy]] - Bad dog, the military should not be the government, and [https://madinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2007/07/macarthur-on-democracy.html?m=1 MacArthur was pro Democracy].

*[[File:Annil.png]] [[Anarcho-Nihilism]] He laughs at me when I say freedom and democracy. He is not fan of freedom. Why don't like something?

*

===Wikipedia===

*[[w:Democracy|Democracy]]

*[[w:Direct_democracy|Direct Democracy]]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-direct_democracy Semi-Direct Democracy]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Democracy Category:Democracy]

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