representative democracy

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representative democracy (countable and uncountable, plural representative democracies)

  1. (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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