Question: The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow, Democracy, in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a what?

Context articles: Democracy
Socialist Alternative (Australia)
Ernst Wigforss
Ethel Snowden
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
Fabian Society
Procedural democracy
British Socialist Party
Embedded democracy
Socialist Party

Democracy (, "dēmokratía " literally "rule of the people"), in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament.
 Democracy is sometimes referred to as "rule of the majority".
 Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes.
Socialist Alternative is a revolutionary socialist organisation in Australia, identifying with the Marxist tradition of "socialism from below".
 Formed after its founding members were expelled from the former International Socialist Organisation (ISO) in 1995, today it claims to have the largest active membership on the Australian far-left – as acknowledged by some on the far-left.
 With branches across Australia, their membership operates within the trade union and student union movements and grass roots campaigns.
Ernst Johannes Wigforss (24 January 1881–2 January 1977) was a Swedish politician and linguist (dialectologist), mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance.
 Wigforss became one of the main theoreticians in the development of the Swedish Social Democratic movement's revision of Marxism, from a revolutionary to a reformist organization.
 He was inspired and stood ideologically close to the ideas of the Fabian Society and guild socialism and inspired by people like R. H. Tawney, L.T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson.
 He made contributions in his early writings about industrial democracy and workers' self-management.
Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden (born Ethel Annakin; 8 September 1881 – 22 February 1951), was a British socialist, human rights activist, and feminist politician.
 From a middle-class background, she became a Christian Socialist through a radical preacher and initially promoted temperance and teetotalism in the slums of Liverpool.
 She aligned to the Fabian Society and later the Independent Labour Party, earning an income by lecturing in Britain and abroad.
 Snowden was one of the leading campaigners for women's suffrage before the First World War, then founding The Women's Peace Crusade to oppose the war and call for a negotiated peace.
 After a visit to the Soviet Union she developed a strong criticism of its system, which made her unpopular when relayed to the left-wing in Britain.
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist, reformer and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
 He was one of the early members of the Fabian Society in 1884, along with George Bernard Shaw (they joined three months after its inception).
 Along with his wife Beatrice Webb, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland, and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent political-intellectual society of England during the Edwardian era and beyond.
 He wrote the original Clause IV for the British Labour Party.
The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.
 As one of the founding organisations of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900, and as an important influence upon the Labour Party which grew from it, the Fabian Society has had a powerful influence on British politics.
 Other members of the Fabian Society have included political leaders from countries formerly part of the British Empire, such as: Jawaharlal Nehru, who adopted Fabian principles as part of their own political ideologies.
Procedural democracy is a democracy in which the people or citizens of the state have less influence than in traditional liberal democracies.
 This type of democracy is characterized by voters choosing to elect representatives in free elections.
The British Socialist Party (BSP) was a Marxist political organisation established in Great Britain in 1911.
 Following a protracted period of factional struggle, in 1916 the party's anti-war forces gained decisive control of the party and saw the defection of its pro-war Right Wing.
 After the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia at the end of 1917 and the termination of World War I the following year, the BSP emerged as an explicitly revolutionary socialist organisation.
 It negotiated with other radical groups in an effort to establish a unified communist organisation, an effort which culminated in August 1920 with the establishment of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
 The youth organisation the Young Socialist League was affiliated with the party.
Embedded democracy is a form of government in which democratic governance is secured by democratic partial regimes.
 The term "embedded democracy" was coined by political scientists Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle, and Aurel Croissant, who identified "five interdependent partial regimes" necessary for an embedded democracy: electoral regime, political participation, civil rights, horizontal accountability, and the power of the elected representatives to govern.
 The five internal regimes work together to check the power of the government, while external regimes also help to secure and stabilize embedded democracies.
 Together, all the regimes ensure that an embedded democracy is guided by the three fundamental principles of freedom, equality, and control.
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world.
 All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what ""socialism"" means.
 Statistically, most of these parties advocate either democratic socialism, social democracy, or even Third Way as their ideological position.
 Many Socialist Parties have explicit connections to the labour movement and trade unions. See also Socialist International, list of democratic socialist parties and organizations and list of social democratic parties.
 A number of affiliates of the Trotskyist Committee for a Workers' International also use the name "Socialist Party".