Democracy

"This page is about the ideology that advocates for a political system based on voting. For the ideology of the US Democratic Party see Syncretic Liberalism,  Third Way or  Social Liberalism."

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 Republicanism.

[[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 liberal 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 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 Athens,  Revolutionary France and the  Paris Commune, it is nowadays practiced in the autonomous region of  Rojava and in  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 Authoritarian Democracy.

Demobureaucracy
Demobureaucracy is a term referring to the hypothetical system where the right to be elected by the general public extends at least throughout the seniormost offices in public administration. The term may describe various processes whereby the administrative offices are generally elected from a pool of self or chief-executive-selected, but particularly chief-executive-selected candidates. To some extent this can be argued to be what Woodrow Wilson was trying to talk about in this passage of an article he wrote:

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 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. - The Study of Administration, 1887

Personality
In all contexts in which there's a debate, Dem will always suggest it to settle out with a vote. Sometimes in a comedic context, Dem might support a radical decision simply because there was a vote on it.

Representative Democracy
Democracy_Flag.svg The design of Democracy utilizes uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2011. You're done!
 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes.
 * 2) Separate the Ball into 3 roughly equal sized sections;
 * 3) Blue, on the left, in a triangle-like shape,
 * 4) Red, the bottom right,
 * 5) Green, top right.
 * 6) In the middle draw a white circle.
 * 7) Around the middle Circle draw smaller circles with the colours mentioned before (Red, Green and Blue) and the 3 combinations of those colours (Yellow, Purple and Cyan) in a positions physically opposite of each other.

Semi-Direct Democracy
You're done!
 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Draw a top-to-bottom tricolor of green, blue and red.
 * 3) Add three white lines across the blue stripe. Make sure they don't reach the edges of the ball.
 * 4) Add eyes.

Direct Democracy
You're done!
 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) Fill it with the colour white
 * 3) Add three coloured lines across the middle;
 * 4) Green as the top line,
 * 5) Blue as the middle,
 * 6) Red as the bottom.
 * 7) Add eyes.

Defensive Democracy
You're done!
 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes.
 * 2) Separate the ball into 3 roughly equal sized sections;
 * 3) White, on the left, in a triangle-like shape,
 * 4) Light Cyan, at the bottom right,
 * 5) Black, top right.
 * 6) In the middle draw a circle with Dark Cyan.
 * 7) Around the circle draw 12 smaller circles, all with a colour from the previous section, in a clock-wise manner; i.e 4 Black circles in the Light Cyan section, 4 Light Cyan ones in the White section, etc.
 * 8) Draw a nurse cap, colour it with Soft Cyan.
 * 9) Add a Dark Cyan cross to the hat.

Demobureaucracy

 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes.
 * 2) Separate the ball into 3 roughly equal sized sections;
 * 3) White, on the left, in a triangle-like shape,
 * 4) Half Light and half Dark Cyan, at the bottom right,
 * 5) Black, top right.
 * 6) In the middle draw a circle with Dark Cyan.
 * 7) Around the circle draw 12 smaller circles, all with a colour from the previous section, in a clock-wise manner; i.e 4 Black circles in the Half-Light-Half-Dark Cyan section, 2 Light Cyan and 2 Dark Cyan ones in the White section, etc.
 * 8) Draw the glasses.

You're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Athdem.png]] Athenian Democracy - My based Papa.
 * [[File: Thar.png]] Anti-Authoritarianism - A huge fan of mine
 * [[File:Raddem.png]] Radical Democracy - My radical son.
 * [[File:E-Democracy.png]] E-Democracy - My internet loving son.
 * [[File:Liqdem.png]] Liquid Democracy - My more extreme son.
 * [[File:EndecjaPix.png]] National Democracy - Polish Nationalism but based.
 * [[File: Cdem.png]] Christian Democracy & [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] Islamic Democracy - Theocracies but based.
 * [[File:Demsocstar.png]] Democratic Socialism - Socialism but based.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - He likes welfare and democracy.
 * [[File:Demtrans.png]] Democratic Transhumanism - Transhumanism but based.
 * World Federalism2.png World Federalism - A global democratic state? Based.
 * [[File:Lib.png]] Liberalism - Progressivism but based.
 * Every explicitly democratic ideology.

Frenemies

 * [[File: Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - My weird child.
 * [[File: Ochlo.png]] Ochlocracy - You're a sociopath, but at least you do care about democracy.
 * [[File: Demarchy.png]] Demarchy - While you do represent the will of the people, are you sure what you're doing is good?
 * [[File: Emon.png]] Elective Monarchism - The only good form of monarchism. Sadly still a monarch.
 * [[File: Mediocracy.png]] Mediocracy - Thanks, I hate the fact he is technically right and that I am always feeling self-hatred when I see him...
 * [[File:Kak.png]] Kakistocracy - You like the people just like me, but you're making me look bad.
 * [[File:Awaj.png]] Anarchism - Her entire family is against my "representative" variant, but most of her children are favorable towards my "direct" variant.
 * [[File:3princ.png]] Tridemism [[File:3princ-col.png]] - My Georgist and nationalist counterpart... who apparently doesn't mind simping for authoritarian.
 * [[File:Demcr.png]] Democratism - Please get rid of electoral college and watch out for [[File:Corp.png]] 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.
 * Every other ideology not explicitly against him.

Enemies

 * [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy - The people should make decisions, not you!
 * [[File:Sec.png]] Authoritarianism - The people should have their say!
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Did you confuse me with Imperialism?
 * [[File: Fash.png]] Fascism - Can't handle just one vote?
 * [[File: Hoppef.png]] Hoppeanism - He wants to physically remove me.
 * [[File: Monarch.png]] Monarchism - Why do we have a [[File:Emon.png]] 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]] Fools and more - Those guys used me to destroy me. Sad but true.
 * [[File:Ilminism.png]] Ilminism - May 18th 1980 NEVER FORGET!
 * [[File: Juche.png]] Juche - You're not even democratic.
 * [[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]] - Here.

Wikipedia

 * Democracy
 * Majoritarianism
 * Voting
 * Election
 * Ballot
 * Direct Democracy
 * Semi-Direct Democracy
 * Representative Democracy
 * Defensive Democracy
 * Category:Democracy

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