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representative democracy
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Noun
representative democracy (countable and uncountable, plural representative democracies)
- (politics) A policy under the rule of people acting on the behalf of and, to a lesser extent, in the interests of the voting blocks by which they were elected.
- Synonym: indirect democracy
- Coordinate term: direct democracy
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