Democracy commonly is referred to from many different perspectives:
- Modern democracy — democracy implemented within constructs that protect individual rights and maintain a balance of power.
- Liberal democracy — the ideals behind modern democracy, specifically with respect to representative democracy.
- Athenian democracy — democracy as originally invented; a majoritarian model.
- Direct democracy — implementations of democracy in more pure forms.
- Democracy (varieties) — all the other approaches to democracy in existence.
- Democracy is an 1880 novel by Henry Adams.