Others, including the many variants of representative democracy(Constitutional), favor more indirect or procedural approaches to collective self-governance (Defensive), where decisions are made by elected representatives rather than by the people directly.
[2] The foregoing examples are just a few of the thousands of refinements of, and variations on, the central notion of "democracy.
Types of representative democracy include: Representative democracies often contain political parties, which are groups of politicians with similar views who work together to win elections.
Depending on how many major parties exist, a representative democracy can have one of the following party systems: A demarchy is a form of government where people are randomly selected from the citizenry through sortition to either act as general governmental representatives or to make decisions in specific areas of governance (defense, environment, etc.).
[5] A cellular democracy, developed by Georgist libertarian economist Fred E. Foldvary, uses a multi-level bottom-up structure based on either small neighborhood governmental districts or contractual communities.