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Where citizens elect a smaller group of officials to make decisions on their behalf. Used in democratic countries with a large population. *

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Representative democracy

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Democracy can be divided into two:

- Direct democracy.

In this form of democracy, the citizens can influence the decisions made by the government by directly vote for the type of legislations that the government can pass. This form of democracy typically used in small communities that rarely face overly complicated issues.

- Representatives Democracy.

In this form of democracy, citizens canto vote for the legislations. But, they can select a group of officials in order to vote for the legislations on the citizens' behalf. This system democracy is what currently used the most in the world. Typically, this form of democracy is more efficient in a society with large populations with a lot of complicated issues (such as a country)

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