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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) makes an uncompromising commitment to democratic government: ‘The will of the people’, it states, ‘shall be the basis of the authority of government.’ The popular will ‘shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures’.1
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Teague, E. (2000). Citizenship and Democracy. In: Garrard, J., Tolz, V., White, R. (eds) European Democratization since 1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983317_12
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