Becoming Quote by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

“Where democracy – as an evident necessity – has to be organized through representation, actors coincide with groups-interests. In a representative democracy the interests…

— Leo Klinkers

Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make…

— Richard Painter

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

— George Monbiot

Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

Democracy is about electoral competition.

— Mehbooba Mufti

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament…

— Eric Williams

“Observing the volatile nature of the new democracies, I came vividly to see how unimportant a part of democracy are elections, in comparison with…

— Roger Scruton

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

— George Bernard Shaw

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

— Pramila Jayapal