direct democracy

English

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Noun

direct democracy (countable and uncountable, plural direct democracies)

1. (politics) A form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly, without electing representatives.

   Coordinate term: representative democracy

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: democràcia directa f
• Czech: přímá demokracie f
• Dutch: directe democratie f
• Estonian: otsedemokraatia
• Finnish: suora demokratia (fi)
• French: démocratie directe (fr) f
• Georgian: პირდაპირი დემოკრატია (ṗirdaṗiri demoḳraṭia)
• German: direkte Demokratie (de) f
• Greek: άμεση δημοκρατία f (ámesi dimokratía)
• Hindi: प्रत्यक्ष लोकतंत्र m (pratyakṣ loktantra)
• Hungarian: közvetlen demokrácia
• Icelandic: beint lýðræði n
• Indonesian: demokrasi langsung (id)
• Italian: democrazia diretta f
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: непосредна демократија f (neposredna demokratija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: direkte demokrati n

• Polish: demokracja bezpośrednia f
• Portuguese: democracia direta (pt) f
• Romanian: democrație directă f
• Russian: пряма́я демокра́тия f (prjamája demokrátija)
• Spanish: democracia directa f
• Swedish: direktdemokrati c
• Ukrainian: пряма́ демокра́тія f (prjamá demokrátija)
• Vietnamese: dân chủ trực tiếp

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} ديمقراطية مباشرة f
• Armenian: ^{(please verify)} ուղիղ ժողովրդավարություն (uġiġ žoġovrdavarutʻyun)
• Asturian: ^{(please verify)} democracia direuta f
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} прама́я дэмакра́тыя f (pramája demakrátyja)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} пря́ка демокра́ция f (prjáka demokrácija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 直接民主

• Galician: ^{(please verify)} democracia directa f
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} דמוקרטיה ישירה (he) f
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 直接民主主義
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} tiešā demokrātija f, ^{(please verify)} tīrā demokrātija f
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} tiesioginė demokratija f
• Malay: ^{(please verify)} demokrasi langsung
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} democracia dirècta f
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} دموکراسی مستقیم
• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} dimucrazzìa diretta f
• Sinhalese: ^{(please verify)} සෘජු ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය (sr̥ju prajātantrawādaya)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} priama demokracia f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} neposredna demokracija f
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} நேரடி மக்களாட்சி (nēraṭi makkaḷāṭci)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} doğrudan demokrasi
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} بلا واسطہ جمہوریت f

Further reading

• “direct democracy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “direct democracy” (US) / “direct democracy” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.