but the descriptions are limited by dependence on the actual clinical nursing situations from which they must be derived.

Elections are only democratic if they are truly free and fair. This requires the freedom to advocate, associate, contest, and campaign.

vertical accountability is a genuinely democratic election

invests some agencies of the state with the power and responsibility to monitor the conduct of their counterparts

This requires both vertical and horizontal accountability

in which citizens trust one another and interact as political equals. In sustainable democracies, institutions of good governance--such as impartial judicial systems and vigorous audit agencies--induce, enforce, and reward civic behavior

they must listen to their citizens' voices, engage their participation, tolerate their protests, protect theirfreedoms, and respond to their needs

it must have more than regular, multiparty elections under a civilian constitutional order

lections are only democratic if they are truly free and fair.