democratic
She is the lawful and democratically chosen leader.
They are attracted to the idea of running things democratically.
We have to work with the public democratically.

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democratically | Business English

democratically
adverb
 POLITICS, MANAGEMENT, WORKPLACEuk /ˌdeməˈkrætɪkli/us
in a way which follows the principles of democracy:
democratically elected/appointedThe Council is led by a board of members who are democratically appointed.

Examples of democratically

democratically
Compliance of the latter with democratically reached decisions may plausibly be thought of as one appropriate response to the value of democracy.
Do they do so primarily because they believe their democratically elected government is corrupt and unaccountable?
They exercised their power as democratically-elected leaders by creating reforming political coalitions that changed traditional political alignments.
With the peremptory norm, in particular, we leave behind the world of democratically decided actions to be monitored and reviewed.
It would be "voluntary" 2 in the sense that it would be adopted only by the will of the people expressed democratically.
Now, clearly, liberal democratic states can and do use coercive means in order to implement policies that have been agreed amongst democratically elected representatives.
The directive for emerging democracies is clear - promote democratically oriented parties and citizen participation in these parties.
That is, in a democratically accountable system with direct elections that are privately funded, policymakers may be responsive but only to the wealthiest of advocates.
And thus from their perspective, decisions are democratically legitimate only in so far as the processes from which they result are non-coercive.
Elections are not democracy, of course, but without free and fair elections you cannot have a democratically legitimized government and, hence, representative democracy.
And there may also be situations, conversely, in which movements do not have to act democratically.
Ironically, thus, the less democratically accountable system may be more responsive to a broader range of interests.
The more democratically accountable system also appears biased in its responsiveness and that bias is pro-business.
That, however, will not be without democratic impact - the federation is democratically ordered - though the worry about an unavoidable elitism here remains very strong.
Student leaders justly prided themselves on the creation of democratically structured, broad-based, nationwide student organisation.
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