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List of democracy and elections-related topics - Definition and Overview

Politics, parties and elections


This is a list of articles related to democracy and the various aspects of a democratic system, most notably elections. In general, all the following articles have at least some connection with the democratic decision-making process.

Contents

Government

Government - Separation of powers - Executive (government) - Legislature - Judiciary

Democracy

Democracy - Democracy (varieties) - Form of government - Civil society - Checks and balances

Direct democracy

Direct democracy - Athenian democracy - Referenda - Initiative

Indirect democracy

Liberal democracy - Representative democracy - Delegated legislation

Presidential system

Presidential system - Congress - Semi-presidential system - President

Parliamentary system

Parliamentary system - History of Parliamentarism - Parliament - Inter-Parliamentary Union - Westminster System - Parliamentary supremacy - Semi-presidential system - Coalition government - Prime minister

Election and Electoral systems

Election - Psephology - Electoral system - Condorcet method - Criticisms of electoralism - General election - By-election - Additional Member System - Fixed-term election - First Past the Post electoral system - Indirect election - Mixed member proportional voting - Party-list proportional representation - Pluralism - Proportional representation - Single non-transferable vote - Single Transferable Vote

Voting and counting systems

Vote counting systems - Voting system - Alternative vote top-up - Approval voting - Borda count - Bucklin voting - Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping - Closed list - Condorcet method - Coombs' method - Copeland's method - D'Hondt method - Droop quota - Election threshold - Hamilton method - Highest averages method - Instant-runoff voting - Largest remainder method - Preferential voting - Proportional approval voting - Range voting - Sainte-Laguë method

Miscellaneous on elections

Absolute majority - Anti-incumbency - Ballot - Bloc voting - Canvassing - Compulsory voting - Constituency - Cumulative voting - Double majority - Duverger's law - Elector - Elective rights - Electoral college - Electoral fusion - Electorate - Electronic voting - Exit poll - Gerrymander - Incumbent - Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Majority rule - Marginal seat - Open list - Overhang seat - Parallel voting - Plurality - Polling station - Postal voting - Primary election - Protest vote - Push poll - Qualified Majority Voting - Recall election - Secret ballot - Simple majority - Sortition - Split vote - Spoiler effect - Strategic nomination - Suffrage - Suffragette - Supermajority - Tactical voting - Two-thirds majority - Universal suffrage - Vote - Vote swapping - Vote-rigging - Voter turnout - Voting machine - Voting rights - Women's suffrage

Campaigning

Campaign finance - Campaign finance reform - Campaign management tools - Canvassing - Election promise - Get out the vote - Negative campaigning - Political campaign - Political platform

Political parties

Party system - Political spectrum - Political party - Multi-party system - Two-party system - Single-party state - Dominant-party system

Per country

Election results - List of election results - Table of voting systems by nation - List of national legislatures - List of political parties

E-democracy

E-democracy - Emergent democracy - Internet democracy - Open Source Government

Theories and political science

Democratic peace theory

Alternative forms of democracy

Anticipatory democracy - Bioregional democracy - Consensus democracy - Deliberative democracy - E-democracy - Grassroots democracy - Participatory democracy - Demarchy - Non-partisan democracy - Totalitarian democracy - Semi-direct democracy - Gerontocracy - Meritocracy - Geniocracy

Alternative forms of government

Absolute monarchy - Anarchism - Aristocracy - Autocracy - Dictatorship - Technocracy - Theocracy - See further: Forms of government

Example Usage of elections-related

hedron: Thanks to @chrisbachmann for pointing out that I did not, in fact, have a #civicdutyFAIL yesterday. No elections related to me.
mattwhiting: With many elections-related decisions to make, I totally forgot Weezer's latest is out today...(probably better that way)
robdolin: @ Newmark Tower ! Getting ready to update @CivicCal with a batch of #seattle elections-related events. Tweet with @CivicCal to suggest one.
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