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Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by kiba on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:52AM (#12187631)
We called those type of government 'liberal democracy'.

Democracy says nothing about check and balance, or respect for minorities.

Re:Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all by rglullis on Friday July 29, 2016 @12:11PM (#12187801)
I don't mean "respect for minorities" in the sense of policies for disenfranchised groups. I meant in the pure numerical sense, i.e, "people who voted for the other guy don't get to lose their rights".

But I think we are just using different names for the same beast. "Liberal Democracies" are "Democracies as we'd like to understand them in the western world".