However, newly installed democracies do not seem to be on a path of becoming fully representative democracies. The concept arose from Argentinian political scientist Guillermo O'Donnell, who notes that representative democracy as it exists is usually linked solely to highly developed capitalist countries. In political science, delegative democracy is a mode of governance close to Caesarism, Bonapartism or caudillismo with a strong leader in a newly created otherwise democratic government.
For democratic systems wherein voters can either vote directly or delegate their vote to other participants, see liquid democracy. This article is about authoritarian tendencies in newly established democratic states.
