Flashcards: Democracy

Democratization is the transition to a more democratic political regime.

In 2007 the United Nations General Assembly resolved to observe 15 September as the International Day of Democracy—with the purpose of promoting and upholding the principles of democracy—and invited all member states and organizations to commemorate the day in an appropriate manner that contributes to raising public awareness.

The Free World is a Cold War–era propaganda term for the non-communist countries of the world.

The phrase democratic centralism identifies the principles of internal organization used by Leninist political parties.

A parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from the legislature (parliament) and is also held accountable to that legislature.

The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.

The public sphere (German: Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national election, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition.

E-democracy (a combination of the words electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, incorporates 21st-century information and communications technology to promote democracy.

A democracy is a type of political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, or organization, in which all members have the equal share to power.

Ratification is a principal's approval of an act of its agent where the agent lacked authority to legally bind the principal.

The Constitution of the Athenians or the Athenian Constitution (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία Athenaion Politeia) refers to two texts from Classical antiquity: one probably by Aristotle or a student of his, the second attributed to Xenophon, but not thought to be his work.

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) is a European Union mechanism aimed at increasing direct democracy by enabling the "EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies", introduced with the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007.

Elections in Cuba involve nomination of municipal candidates by voters in nomination assemblies, nomination of provincial and national candidates by candidacy commissions, voting by secret ballot, and recall elections.

This is an incomplete list of wars between entities that have a constitutionally democratic form of government.

Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes where as much decision-making authority as practical is shifted to the organization's lowest geographic or social level of organization.

Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community.

An illiberal democracy, also called a partial democracy, low intensity democracy, empty democracy, or hybrid regime, is a governing system in which, although elections take place, citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties.

Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby some members of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to other members of the same body to vote in their absence, and/or to select additional representatives.

"Media and democracy" is a set of ideas advocating reforming the mass media, strengthening public service broadcasting, and developing and participating in alternative media and citizen journalism.