Editing Democracy (section)

==Non-governmental democracy==
Aside from the public sphere, similar democratic principles and mechanisms of voting and representation have been used to govern other kinds of groups. Many [[non-governmental organisation]]s decide policy and leadership by voting. Most [[trade union]]s and [[cooperative]]s are governed by democratic elections. [[Corporation]]s are ultimately governed by their [[shareholder]]s through [[shareholder democracy]]. Corporations may also employ systems such as [[workplace democracy]] to handle internal governance. [[Amitai Etzioni]] has postulated a system that fuses elements of democracy with [[sharia law]], termed Islamic democracy or ''[[wikt:Islamocracy|Islamocracy]]''.<ref>Compare: {{cite book|last1=Tibi|first1=Bassam|title=The Sharia State: Arab Spring and Democratization|date=2013|page=161|publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXAdAAAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1-135-92468-3}}</ref> There is also a growing number of [[Democratic education]]al institutions such as [[Sudbury school]]s that are co-governed by students and staff.

===Shareholder democracy===
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Shareholder democracy is a concept relating to the governance of corporations by their shareholders. In the United States, shareholders are typically granted voting rights according to the [[one share, one vote]] principle. Shareholders may vote annually to elect the company's [[board of directors]], who themselves may choose the company's [[Chief executive officer|executives]]. The shareholder democracy framework may be inaccurate for companies which have different [[Share class|classes of stock]] that further alter the distribution of voting rights.