Bourgeois democracy

Bourgeois democracy is a state form characterized by indirect democracy, periodic elections, political parties, and a state monopoly on the form of political struggle, with special repressive organs for maintaining this monopoly. This form of government developed in the 18th century in the United States, Great Britain and France but has gone on to predominate globally since the end of the Cold War.

Bourgeois democracies are designed to be highly conservative, tending to limit radical change through high barriers of entry, separated branches of government, and infrequent checks on the mandate of political representatives.