I'm not sure how the refusal of climax gets to define democracy.

Rather, he defined democracy as the generation of broad participation in government, a process the church supported.

At 09:11am on 07 Nov 2010, plaintruth wrote: How do we define democracy?

And I thought, gee, these people define democracy very differently.

But when the talk turned to defining democracy, it was clear that that subject had been skipped over, too.

I believe we should define democracy for that article.

The political deliberations of a country that defined modern democracy ought to matter.

From the moment you define democracy, it ceases to be a democracy.

He defines managed democracy as "a political form in which governments are legitimated by elections that they have learned to control".

They have earned the right to define democracy for themselves and their countries - so long as they don't scrap democracy in the process.