Guided democracy

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Guided democracy, also called directed democracy and managed democracy, is a term used for some hybrid regimes that were or are formally democratic governments that function as de facto authoritarian governments. Guided democracies are legitimized by elections, but these elections do not change the state's policies, motives, and goals. In a guided democracy, the government controls elections so that citizens appear to exercise democratic rights without truly changing public policy. The state's continuous use of propaganda techniques prevents the electorate from having a significant impact on policy. The term "guided democracy" was used by Pakistani president Ayub Khan in the 1960s, by historians to refer to the Sanation regime of Poland from 1926 to 1939, and was an official name for Indonesian democracy under the Sukarno presidency in the early 1960s.

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