I believe Thomas Jefferson defined it best: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
democracy is a form of government where-by unethical people, using lies, misinformation and fear tactics, can scare millions of voters into voting for bad people and bad laws
Are there any non representative democracy's? aka republic or parlimintarian types of democracy's? I do not think there is any true democratic government on earth. Of course democratic government is an oxymoron if you think about it.