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Demisexuality
Demisexuality, also called being demisexual, is a sexual orientation on the asexual spectrum in which sexual attraction arises only after a strong emotional bond forms, distinct from celibacy and from asexuality and graysexuality.
Demiurge
Demiurge (Greek dēmiourgos, δημιουργός, 'craftsman, one who works for the people'): Plato's divine Craftsman of the Timaeus who orders preexistent chaos, later reinterpreted by Middle Platonists, Neoplatonists, and Gnostics (Ialdabaoth) as maker of the world.
Demna (დემნა გვასალია) (designer)
Demna (Demna Gvasalia, დემნა გვასალია), Georgian designer born 1981 in Sukhumi, co-founded Vetements in 2014, was Balenciaga's artistic director 2015–2025, and became Gucci's artistic director in July 2025.
Demo
Demo (Демо) is a Russian pop-dance group formed in Moscow in 1999, fronted by vocalist Sasha Zvereva and known for the hit "Solnyshko", one of the main dance acts of the late 1990s.
Democedes of Croton
Democedes of Croton (Δημοκήδης) was a Greek physician of the sixth century BC who served Polycrates of Samos and King Darius I of Persia, then escaped to Croton.
Democide
Democide is the murder of any person or people by a government, a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel in his 1994 book Death by Government, covering genocide, politicide, and mass murder.
Democracy
Democracy (dēmokratia, Greek: rule by the people) is government based on popular control and political equality. Born in Athens in 508 BC, now mostly representative; measured by V-Dem, Freedom House, and EIU indices amid a global democratic decline.
Democracy activism in Myanmar during the 2011–2021 liberalization
Democracy activism in Myanmar from 2011 to 2021 was legal civil-society protest and election mobilization under the reforms of Thein Sein's government, ended by the 2021 coup.
Democracy in America
Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) is Alexis de Tocqueville's two-volume 1835/1840 study of the United States, built on his 1831 prison-study trip, analyzing equality of conditions, tyranny of the majority, associations, and religion.
Democracy in Europe
Democracy in Europe: measured by V-Dem, EIU, Freedom House, and International IDEA indices; aggregate EU-27 democratic scores declined over 15 years, backsliding most marked in eastern members, with EU rule-of-law enforcement against Hungary, Serbia, and Georgia.
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), also MeRA25, is a pan-European radical-left movement founded by Yanis Varoufakis in February 2016 to democratize the EU by 2025; it won nine Greek seats via MeRA25 (lost 2023) but no European Parliament seats.
Democracy in India
Democracy in India: the parliamentary constitutional system sustaining the world's largest democracy since 1947, its 17 national elections, the 1975-77 Emergency, and post-2014 erosion noted by Freedom House, V-Dem, and International IDEA.
Democracy in the Americas
Democracy in the Americas: state of democratic government across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, also called Latin American democracy. Among the most democratic developing regions, with rising public support in 2026 but uneven rule of law, press-freedom deterioration, and sharp US decline.
Democracy indices
Democracy indices are composite country-level measures of democratic quality, including Freedom House's Freedom in the World, the EIU Democracy Index (60 indicators, 167 countries), V-Dem's expert-coded indices, International IDEA's GSoD Indices, and Polity.
Democracy indices (V-Dem)
V-Dem democracy indices: multidimensional expert-coded measures of democracy from the Varieties of Democracy project, Gothenburg and Notre Dame; five high-level indices, 531 indicators, 202 countries from 1789, Bayesian measurement model.
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy
Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita (DL), the Daisy, was an Italian centrist party founded October 2000 as a PPI–Democratici–Rinnovamento Italiano–UDEUR coalition, led by Francesco Rutelli, peaking at 14.5% in 2001, and merging into the Democratic Party in 2007.
Democracy Manifest
Democracy Manifest, or Succulent Chinese Meal, is a 1991 Brisbane news clip of Jack Karlson's theatrical arrest outside a Chinese restaurant, uploaded to YouTube in 2009 and added to Australia's National Film and Sound Archive in 2026.
Democracy Monument (อนุสาวรีย์ประชาธิปไตย)
Democracy Monument (อนุสาวรีย์ประชาธิปไตย, Anusawari Prachathipatai), Bangkok monument on Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue inaugurated 24 June 1940, commemorating the 1932 end of absolute monarchy; designed by M.L. Pum Malakul with sculptures by Silpa Bhirasri.
Democracy movement in Azerbaijan
The democracy movement in Azerbaijan is the opposition parties and activists seeking honest elections since the late Soviet period, peaking with the Popular Front's 1992 presidential win.
Democracy movement in Kazakhstan
The democracy movement in Kazakhstan, sometimes called the Kazakh Spring, is a leaderless pro-democracy movement whose 2022 protests became the largest in the country's modern history.
Democracy movement in Uzbekistan
The democracy movement in Uzbekistan is the pro-democracy opposition opposing authoritarian rule since the late Soviet period; no opposition party operates legally, and the 2005 Andijan massacre killed hundreds.
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! (The War and Peace Report) is an independent daily news hour founded February 19, 1996 at WBAI-FM by Amy Goodman, Juan González and others; audience-funded, airing on 1,500+ stations with a Spanish edition.
Democracy promotion by the United States
Democracy promotion by the United States: foreign assistance activities supporting elections, rule of law, civil society, and human rights abroad, run by USAID, State, and NED since 1983, long funded at over $2 billion annually, and disrupted in 2025 by the suspension of 83% of USAID programs.
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa
Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) refers to democracy-assistance programs by the United States, the European Union, and other Western donors, chiefly after 1990.
Democracy Wall
Democracy Wall (民主墙) was a wall at Xidan in Beijing where, from November 1978, posters and journals demanded democratic reforms, a movement known abroad as the Spring of Peking.
Democracy-assistance program types
Democracy-assistance program types are the functional categories donors use to sort foreign aid supporting democratic institutions, spanning rule of law, civil society, independent media, governance, and human rights.
Democracy-Dictatorship Index
Democracy-Dictatorship Index (DD measure, ACLP/CGV dataset): binary democracy-dictatorship classification by Przeworski, Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland covering 199 countries, 1946–2008, with a six-fold regime scheme and an alternation-in-power rule.
Democrat Party (epithet)
Democrat Party is the truncated, nonstandard name for the US Democratic Party, used as an epithet by Republicans since the 1940s, popularized by figures like Stassen, Bush, Trump, and conservative media.
Democrat Party (พรรคประชาธิปัตย์) (Thailand)
Democrat Party (พรรคประชาธิปัตย์, Phak Prachāthipat), Thailand's oldest political party, founded 6 April 1946 by Khuang Aphaiwong; conservative-royalist, southern-based, led by Chuan, Abhisit, and Jurin; fell to 25 seats in 2023.
Democrat Youth Community of Europe
Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC), founded 1964 in Hamburg as COCDYC, renamed 1975: umbrella of Christian Democratic and conservative party youth wings, EDU observer, IYDU co-founder, Brussels-based with 45 member organisations.