section_path: Political values/Democracy
section_name: Democracy
paragraph_text: Democracy
  
  Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes. The uncertainty of outcomes is inherent in democracy. Democracy makes all forces struggle repeatedly to realize their interests and devolves power from groups of people to sets of rules.
  
  Among modern political theorists, there are three contending conceptions of democracy: aggregative, deliberative, and radical.