Editing Democracy (section)

===Democracy promotion===
[[File:Hong Kong P1066634 (48678676473).jpg|thumb|Banner in Hong Kong asking for democracy, August 2019]]

[[Democracy promotion]] can increase the quality of already existing democracies, reduce [[political apathy]], and the chance of democratic backsliding. Democracy promotion measures include [[voting advice application]]s,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1526237|doi=10.1080/10584609.2018.1526237|title=Getting Out the Vote with Voting Advice Applications|year=2019|last1=Germann|first1=Micha|last2=Gemenis|first2=Kostas|journal=Political Communication|volume=36|pages=149–170|s2cid=149640396}}</ref> [[participatory democracy]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/10/20/book-review-against-elections-the-case-for-democracy-by-david-van-reybrouck/|title=Book Review: Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David Van Reybrouck|date=20 October 2016|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref> increasing [[youth suffrage]], increasing civic education,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wong|first=Alia|date=2018-10-05|title=Civics Education Helps Create Young Voters and Activists|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/10/civics-education-helps-form-young-voters-and-activists/572299/|access-date=2020-09-17|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> reducing [[barriers to entry]] for new political parties,<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1816288|jstor=1816288|last1=Tullock|first1=Gordon|title=Entry Barriers in Politics|journal=The American Economic Review|year=1965|volume=55|issue=1/2|pages=458–466}}</ref> increasing [[proportional representation|proportionality]]<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123408000161|doi=10.1017/S0007123408000161|title=Political Efficacy and Participation in Twenty-Seven Democracies: How Electoral Systems Shape Political Behaviour|year=2008|last1=Karp|first1=Jeffrey A.|last2=Banducci|first2=Susan A.|journal=British Journal of Political Science|volume=38|issue=2|pages=311–334|hdl=10036/64393|s2cid=55486399|hdl-access=free}}</ref> and reducing [[presidential system|presidentialism]].<ref>{{Cite book|editor-last1=Hawkins|editor-first1=Kirk Andrew|editor-last2=Carlin|editor-first2=Ryan E.|editor-last3=Littvay|editor-first3=Levente|editor-last4=Rovira Kaltwasser|editor-first4=Cristóbal|title=The ideational approach to populism: concept, theory, and analysis|isbn=978-1-315-19692-3|pages=281|oclc=1053623603}}</ref>