Sentence examples for direct democracies from inspiring English sources

People keep asking me what I think of direct democracies, but that's a different discussion.

Many direct democracies fall short in two areas: deliberation and integration.

But too many direct democracies resemble California's, where the initiative process allows an almost complete circumvention of representative government.

He said any agreement on a potential compromise would be made by the "direct democracies" present within general assemblies held by students within universities and faculties, not the representative groups.

Today's representative democracies are very different from their distant ancestors, the direct democracies that developed in different forms in the Greek world, notably in Athens, in the 5th century BC.

It is thus easy to see why direct democracies are sometimes thought to approach ideal democracy much more closely than representative systems ever could, and why the most ardent advocates of direct democracy have sometimes insisted, as Rousseau did in The Social Contract, that the term representative democracy is self-contradictory.

"They loathe direct democracy.

What is "direct democracy"?

Direct democracy can transcend identity politics.

Direct democracy has its kindly side.

And direct democracy even more so.