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Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate directly decides on policy initiatives, without elected representatives as proxies, as opposed to the representative democracy model which occurs in the majority of established democracies.
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Editor’s Note: This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and ...
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The conversations touched on everything from pizza to pop culture, but always returned to the importance of democracy. For 50 hours, the Democrats of the Missouri Senate held the floor.
A direct democracy, or pure democracy, is a type of democracy where the people govern directly, by voting on laws and policies. It requires wide participation of citizens in politics. [ 4 ] Athenian democracy , or classical democracy, refers to a direct democracy developed in ancient times in the Greek city-state of Athens.
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- Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images But it is also worth looking at the Oregon drug use experiment from the perspective of direct democracy. Elected representatives, for a variety of reasons ...