This is the definition I am using:

a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.

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    9 months ago

    In part, but not fully. They still have full time reprenstative offices. Direct democracy would get along without those afaik.