Like representative democracy, representational democracy is indirect democracy. Observers use this to designate a form of democracy in which ‘decision making processes reflect inputs from a broad range of social groups’. Consociational democracy as conceptualised by Apter and Lijphart and Polyarchy formulated by Dahl would fall under this category. It is not based on majority principle of representation; rather it advocates a broad range of participation of interests in governmental process.
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