Electoral Systems and Party Systems
Subtitle: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990 (Comparative European Politics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 10, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780198280545
First sentence: EXCEPT in very small communities, democracy necessarily means representative democracy in which elected officials make decisions on behalf of the people.