As a form of government practiced in many developing countries which combines democratic means of election of representatives, reaffirmation of leadership and public offices but negates the liberal tenets of civil rights and individual liberty. They are democratically elected or nominated elite or leaders but do not allow limited and constitutionally accountable government. Fareed Zakaria in his The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003) has called such democratic practices, illiberal democracy.
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