WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In a democracy, ordinary people participate in the process of government mainly through elections. During elections, people exercise their right to vote and elect their representatives. Thus, people participate in the government indirectly through their representatives.

Detailed explanation-2: -Besides voting there are other ways of participating in the process of government. People participate by taking an interest in the working of the government and by criticising it when required.

Detailed explanation-3: -government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch. a nation, state, or community ruled by an autocrat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Democratic Governments You now know that the main feature of a democracy is that the people have the power to elect their leaders. So in a sense a democracy is rule by the people. The basic idea is that people rule themselves by participating in the making of these rules.

Detailed explanation-5: -Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power over a state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject neither to external legal restraints nor to regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d’état or other forms of rebellion).