Examples of Democracy throughout the world?

Question

Can someone please explain to me how democracy still exist throughout the world and are there any forms of democracy and explain them?

Answer 1

Oh dude, look around you? Pretty much any country in the world, minus some African countries, Cuba, Vietnam, China, and some middle eastern countries all have democracies to some extent. Many countries (more than i can count) have followed America's example of a two house legislature, president, and judiciary branch.

In essence, a democracy means a government run by the people. Japan, Great Britain, Mexico, France, Russia (to a certain extent) all are democracies. But, like all countries, democracies also come in many shapes and sizes.

For example, in GB, the queen still "techincallly" reigns supreme, but the way the parliament is set up, the people have sovereignty. In Japan, the japanese elect their representatives to the diet, which also makes them democratic.

Even some confederations (which are normally not democracies if pertaining to countries) such as the EU or the United Nations are founded upon the basis that even though the states retain soveregnty, however, in the end, since the citizens have the ultimate say on policies. (Think EU constitution referendum just recently.) It can be argued that the EU itself is democratic.

Answer 2

Democracy basically means an elective government and relative freedom from oppression. So I would say that most of Western Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, and a number of other countries fit the modern definition of "democracy."