Participatory democracy: It is the democracy that principally every citizen actively participates in the government and where population is relatively less. In Ancient Athens, minority of the population were perceived as citizens that could directly participate in the governing process.

In representative democracy,"citizens elect representatives to serve as bridges between themselves and the government and elected representatives are supposed to convey the concerns and interests of those they represent, and the government is expected to be responsive to the wishes of the people” (Kendall et al., 2000: 444).Elections, existence of free public opinion, check and balance of legislative, executive judicial bodies separately should be present principally in representative democracies.