### basic right | democracy:

American democracy
* depends critically on the acceptance of political opposition.
* is based on the flow of information and ideas.

Digital democracy
* can simply be a means for citizens to communicate electronically with government.
* is an essential component of e-government.
* springs from a new kind of citizen, the digital citizen.

Economic democracy
* is the transfer of economic decision making from the few to the many.
* tends toward a competitive market.
* transposition of the idea of political democracy.

Indian democracy
* has great relevance to the pluralistic world order that is now emerging.
* is the product of a complexity of factors.

Liberal democracy
* Liberal democracies are imperfect because men and women are imperfect.
* encourages mediocrity and compromise.
* is now the prevalent constitutional model over much of the globe
  - qualified democracy

Local democracy
* is based on direct participation and small-group discussion.
* is the means of enabling societies and consolidating democracy at all levels
  - order of the day
* puts the responsibility on the people themselves.

Modern democracy
* Modern democracies are systems of political representation and citizenship
  - depend on honesty in government and in business
* Most modern democracies have two or three political parties.
* is above all party democracy
  - essentially congruent with capitalism

Participatory democracy
* entails responsibility to political, social and economic justice.
* includes discussion and debate as well as decision-making.
* new concept in Zambian politics.
* refers to political involvement at the local level.

Political democracy
* depends on free competition between ideas, parties and candidates.
* is facilitated through Internet debate, polling, and voting
  - inseparable from economic democracy and social democracy

### basic right | democracy:

Real democracy
* Real democracies require legal, political and social institutions.
* can only happen when all are guaranteed a living wage.
* is based on decentralized government
  - good neighborliness
  - fundamental to socialists
  - more than numbers on a ballot paper
  - the key to healthy, prosperous communities and responsible limited government
  - to be able to hold corrupt people accountable for their wrong deeds
* means that the people affected by a decision are empowered to make that decision
  - the ability to change governments peacefully
* requires that the people find ways to share wealth and power.

### basic right | democracy:

Social democracy
* form of socialism that tries to mix parts of communism with capitalism.
* is discussed in so far as it relates to Marxist or Communist movements
  - ideology
  - the extensive delivery of income, goods and services by the state
+ Socialism, Overview: Forms of government :: Political movements
  * Social democracy is a form of socialism that tries to mix parts of communism with capitalism. In this system, the government redistributes wealth from the rich to the poor like a communist state, but people can also run their own businesses and own private property like a capitalist state. It supports gradual reform over revolution. An example of this would be the U.S. fire departments. They rely on taxes paid by the people to keep equipment and staff for the benefit of the community, should something catch on fire. Some of these countries use a progressive tax, where richer people are taxed more than poorer people.

Socialist democracy
* has nothing in common with permissiveness, irresponsibility, and anarchy.
* is decentralized, stateless, and classless.