The phrase "actual democracy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a form of democracy that is genuine or true, often in contrast to a perceived lack of democratic practices in a given system.
Example: "The citizens demanded actual democracy, where their voices would be heard and their votes counted fairly."
Alternatives: "true democracy" or "genuine democracy".
"And yet, it's one of the things that we have to do if we're going to have an actual democracy that actually functions instead of what we have right now, which is an oligarchy without the name".
This is a Supreme Court-sanctioned murder of what little actual Democracy is left in this Democracy.
Whatever Washington lacks in actual democracy, it makes up, of course, in monuments.
That's because Speaker John Boehner agreed to allow actual democracy to work in the chamber he closely manages.
This was seen as an urgent problem in counties where actual democracy might mean black elected officials.
During the eleven-year period between the end of the Civil War and the disputed election of 1876, the United States inaugurated a bold experiment in actual democracy.
Demanding that politicians instead trust the people to tell them exactly what is best turns this on its head, undermining one of actual democracies' greatest strengths.
Although difficult if not impossible to realize in practice, the ideal speech situation can be used as a model of free and open public discussion and a standard against which to evaluate the practices and institutions through which large political questions and issues of public policy are decided in actual democracies.
Since its inception, actual democracies have had sophisticated systems of trial by jury, citizen-government deliberations, and representation.
In its initial phases Critical Theory attempted to develop a normative notion of "real democracy" that was contrasted with actual political forms in liberal societies.
The terrain on which we organise and fight for justice, equality and real democracy is no longer the factory shop floor, but the actual places where we live.
