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Types of democracy refers to kinds of governments or social structures which allow people to participate equally, either directly or indirectly.[1]
Direct Democracies
A direct democracy or pure democracy is a type of democracy where the people govern directly. It requires wide participation of citizens in politics.[2] Athenian democracy or classical democracy refers to a direct democracy developed in ancient times in the Greek city-state of Athens.  A popular democracy is a type of direct democracy based on referendums and other devices of empowerment and concretization of popular will.
An industrial democracy is an arrangement which involves workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and authority in the workplace (see also workplace).
Representative democracies
A representative democracy is an indirect democracy where sovereignty is held by the people's representatives.
A liberal democracy is a representative democracy with protection for individual liberty and property by rule of law.
An illiberal democracy has weak or no limits on the power of the elected representatives to rule as they please.
Types of representative democracy include:
Electoral democracy – type of representative democracy based on election, on electoral vote, as modern occidental or liberal democracies.
Dominant-party system – democratic party system where only one political party can realistically become the government, by itself or in a coalition government.
Parliamentary democracy – democratic system of government where the executive branch of a parliamentary government is typically a cabinet, and headed by a prime minister who is considered the head of government.
Westminster democracy – parliamentary system of government modeled after that of the United Kingdom system.
Presidential democracy – democratic system of government where a head of government is also head of state and leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch. 
Jacksonian democracy – a variant of presidential democracy popularized by U.S. President Andrew Jackson which promoted the strength of the executive branch and the Presidency at the expense of Congressional power.
Soviet democracy or Council democracy – form of democracy where the workers of a locality elect recallable representatives into organs of power called soviets (councils.) The local soviets elect the members of regional soviets who go on to elect higher soviets.
Totalitarian democracy – a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.
A demarchy has people randomly selected from the citizenry through sortition to either act as general governmental representatives or to make decisions in specific areas of governance (defense, environment, etc.).
A non-partisan democracy is system of representative government or organization such that universal and periodic elections (by secret ballot) take place without reference to political parties.
An organic or authoritarian democracy is a democracy where the ruler holds a considerable amount of power, but their rule benefits the people.   The term was first used by supporters of Bonapartism.[3]
Types based on location
A bioregional democracy matches geopolitical divisions to natural ecological regions.
A cellular democracy, developed by Georgist libertarian economist Fred E. Foldvary, uses a multi-level bottom-up structure based on either small neighborhood governmental districts or contractual communities.[4]
A workplace democracy refers to the application of democracy to the workplace[5] (see also  industrial democracy).
Types based on level of freedom
A liberal democracy is a representative democracy with protection for individual liberty and property by rule of law.  In contrast, a defensive democracy limits some rights and freedoms in order to protect the institutions of the democracy.
Types based on ethnic influence
Ethnic democracy
Ethnocracy
Herrenvolk democracy
Religious democracies
A religious democracy is a form of government where the values of a particular religion have an effect on the laws and rules, often when most of the population is a member of the religion, such as:
Christian democracy
Islamic democracy
Jewish and Democratic State
Theodemocracy
Other types of democracy
Types of democracy include:
Anticipatory democracy – relies on some degree of disciplined and usually market-informed anticipation of the future, to guide major decisions.
Associationalism, or Associative Democracy – emphasis on freedom via voluntary and democratically self-governing associations.
Adversialism, or Adversial Democracy – with an emphasis on freedom based on adversial relationships between individuals and groups as best expressed in democratic judicial systems.
Bourgeois democracy – Some Marxists, Communists, Socialists and Left-wing anarchists refer to liberal democracy as bourgeois democracy, alleging that ultimately politicians fight only for the rights of the bourgeoisie.
Consensus democracy – rule based on consensus rather than traditional majority rule.
Constitutional democracy – governed by a constitution.
Delegative democracy – form of democratic control whereby voting power is vested in self-selected delegates, rather than elected representatives.
Deliberative democracy – in which authentic deliberation, not only voting, is central to legitimate decision making. It adopts elements of both consensus decision-making and majority rule.
Democratic centralism – organizational method where members of a political party discuss and debate matters of policy and direction and after the decision is made by majority vote, all members are expected to follow that decision in public.
Democratic dictatorship (also known as democratur)
Democratic republic – republic which has democracy through elected representatives
Democratic socialism – form of socialism ideologically opposed to the Marxist–Leninist styles that have become synonymous with socialism; democratic socialists place an emphasis on decentralized governance in political democracy with social ownership of the means of production and social and economic institutions with workers' self-management.
Economic democracy – theory of democracy involving people having access to subsistence, or equity in living standards.
Grassroots democracy – emphasizes trust in small decentralized units at the municipal government level, possibly using urban secession to establish the formal legal authority to make decisions made at this local level binding.
Guided democracy – form of democratic government with increased autocracy where citizens exercise their political rights without meaningfully affecting the government's policies, motives, and goals.
Interactive democracy – proposed form of democracy utilising information technology to allow citizens to propose new policies, "second" proposals and vote on the resulting laws (that are refined by Parliament) in a referendum.
Jeffersonian democracy – named after American statesman Thomas Jefferson, who believed in equality of political opportunity (for male citizens), and opposed to privilege, aristocracy and corruption.
Market democracy – another name for democratic capitalism, an economic ideology based on a tripartite arrangement of a market-based economy based predominantly on economic incentives through free markets, a democratic polity and a liberal moral-cultural system which encourages pluralism.
Multiparty democracy – two-party system requires voters to align themselves in large blocs, sometimes so large that they cannot agree on any overarching principles.
New Democracy – Maoist concept based on Mao Zedong's "Bloc of Four Classes" theory in post-revolutionary China.
Participatory democracy – involves more lay citizen participation in decision making and offers greater political representation than traditional representative democracy, e.g., wider control of proxies given to representatives by those who get directly involved and actually participate.
People's democracy – multi-class rule in which the proletariat dominates.
Radical democracy – type of democracy that focuses on the importance of nurturing and tolerating difference and dissent in decision-making processes.
Revolutionary democracy – ideology of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Semi-direct democracy – representative democracy with instruments, elements, and/or features of direct democracy.
Sociocracy – democratic system of governance based on consent decision making, circle organization, and double-linked representation.
See also


Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD)
Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE)
Communalism
Corsican Constitution
Democracy Index
Democracy promotion
Democracy Ranking
Democratic capitalism
Direct Action and Democracy Today
Education Index
The End of History and the Last Man
Four boxes of liberty
International Centre for Democratic Transition
Islam and democracy
Isonomia
Jewish and Democratic State
Kleroterion
List of wars between democracies
Motion (democracy)
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship
Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Penn, Schoen & Berland
Polity data series
Post-democracy
Potsdam Declaration
Public sphere
Ratification
Synoecism
Trustee model of representation
Vox populi
Why Democracy?
Workplace democracy
World Bank's Inspection Panel
World Forum for Democratization in Asia
World Youth Movement for Democracy
Constitutional economics
Cosmopolitan democracy
Community of Democracies
Democracy Index
Democracy promotion
Democratic Peace Theory
Democratization
Direct Action and Democracy Today
Empowered democracy
Foucault/Habermas debate
Freedom deficit
Liberal democracy
List of direct democracy parties
Majority rule
Media democracy
Netocracy
Poll
Panarchy
Polyarchy
Sociocracy
Sortition
Subversion
Rule According to Higher Law
Voting

Further types

Absolute democracy
Bhutanese democracy
Consensus democracy
Guided democracy
Interest group democracy
Messianic democracy
Non-representative democracy
Procedural democracy
Sectarian democracy
Sovereign democracy
Substantive democracy
Third Wave Democracy

Bibliography
 M. Haas, Why Democracies Flounder and Fail, , June 2018