HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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oligarchy
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direct democracy
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monarchy
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tyranny
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Detailed explanation-1: -Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen over the age of 20 could take part, and it was a duty to do so. The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lottery in a process called sortition.
Detailed explanation-2: -Greece is a parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the President of Greece is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Greece is the head of government within a multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Hellenic Parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -This demokratia, as it became known, was a direct democracy that gave political power to free male Athenian citizens rather than a ruling aristocratic class or dictator, which had largely been the norm in Athens for several hundred years before.
Detailed explanation-4: -Absolute democracy. Bhutanese democracy. Consensus democracy. Guided democracy. Interest group democracy. Messianic democracy. Monitory democracy. Non-representative democracy. More items