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Democracy
I. Introduction

Democracy, political system in which the people of a country rule through government usually in the form of representatives elected by popular suffrage.

Contributed By:
John Keane, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.A.
Founder of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, London, and Professor of Politics at The University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). Author, The Media and Democracy; Tom Paine: A Political Life; Democracy and Civil Society and Global Civil Society?.
"Democracy," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2008
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