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This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Representative Democracy and the Implementation of Majority-Preferred Alternatives." Social Choice and Welfare 46, no. 3 (March 2016): 477–494.

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Why did I attend the protest in Cloquet on Presidents Day? One might think that I was protesting the November election, but this is not the case. We live in a representative democracy, meaning that we ...

PRESENTER 2: Well, hang on. Democracy is a system of government where the power lies with the people through representation. We have a Representative Democracy in Wales and the UK so the people ...