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Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: -, The Open University, language: English, comment: This is an edited version of my other upload with similar title. , abstract: Albeit democracy being "the worst form of government", according to Churchill, it has proven remarkably tenacious. Democracy's infancy can be traced back to ancient Greece, and provides for key driver of social change. During industialization, representative democracy, as form of government, rose to become the pre-eminent tool to organize societies in the northern hemisphere. This work looks at some key thinkers and intersections representative democracy was shaped by. It then elaborates briefly on the current state of representative democracy and its future prospects.