... the term "democratic deficit", with particular reference to the negative implications of the word "deficit", and how our understanding of this term effects whether a deficit exists at all. Democracy, as a dictionary definition, "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system ... ...

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