Lu Posted May 3, 2006 at 03:51 PM Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 at 03:51 PM 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.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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted May 4, 2006 at 07:27 AM Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 at 07:27 AM 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.stinky Posted May 4, 2006 at 07:44 AM Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 at 07:44 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowdh Posted May 4, 2006 at 09:45 AM Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 at 09:45 AM 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...?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted May 4, 2006 at 02:42 PM Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 at 02:42 PM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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