Ancient Rome practiced the earliest known form of representative democracy in the Western world. The Romans called their state a republic (from the Latin respublica, meaning, lit… See more

Modern representative democracies have come into being through a variety of political … See more

More than half of the world’s countries are some form of representative democracy. Some are parliamentary constitutional monarchies, in which the head of state is a hereditary … See more

A representative democracy allows voters the opportunity to elect their preferred representative, who is then expected to follow the will of the electorate in making decisions. … See more