Glosategia (ingelesez)
Democracy
The word democracy comes from the Greek words demos, meaning people, and kratos, meaning power. Thus, democracy can be defined as “the power of the people”: a form of government that depends on the will of the people. Democracy, then, is not autocracy or dictatorship, where one person rules; and it is not oligarchy, where a small segment of society does. Properly understood, democracy should not even be “majority rule,” if that means completely ignoring the interests of minorities. Democracy, at least in theory, is government in the name of all the people, according to their “will.”
Dictatorship
A political regime that, by force or violence, concentrates all power in a single person, group, or organization and represses human rights and individual freedoms. Examples of dictators include Adolf Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy, and Francisco Franco in Spain.
Civil society:
Groups of citizens organized as such to act in the public sphere in pursuit of the common good, without personal gain or seeking political power or allegiance to a particular party.