Concept information
Preferred term
types of democracy
Definition
- Since the end of the Cold War, democracy has become the unrivaled form of government in the world. Acceptance of a country as a full partner in the global community of nations is considerably facilitated by its being characterized as a political democracy; international military interventions, as in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, state their goal as the building of democracy; less democratic countries are asked to improve the quality of their democracy to gain esteem; and countries that hardly possess the attributes of democratic governance claim to be democratic because such characterization is thought to bestow prestige on them. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Democracy, Types of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/types_of_democracy
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