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Liberal Democracy - A Shorthand for Democracy
Liberal democracy is a collection of institutional norms like the rule of law. It borrows from ancient greek democracy, but it really took its modern form in the seventeenth, eighteenth century. The term 'liberal' doesn't mean liberal versus conservative; it's just an abstraction that becomes real only in the form of democratic institutions.