political theory vs democracy

democracy vs political theory

political theory and democracy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
political theory	Yes	No	No	No
democracy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, democracy is a hyponym of political theory; that is, democracy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than political theory:

political theory: an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
democracy: the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives

Other hyponyms of political theory include absolutism, totalism, totalitarianism, anarchism, autocracy, centrism, moderatism, collectivism, communism, conservatism, conservativism, fundamentalism, segregationism, constitutionalism, social democracy, domino theory, elitism, extremism, fascism, federalism, imperialism, leftism, liberalism, meritocracy, libertarianism, monarchism, Negritude, Orleanism, progressivism, radicalism, reactionism, republicanism, rightism, socialism, theocracy, Utopianism, dovishness, hawkishness, unitarism, anti-democracy, neo-Marxism, Pan-Germanism, social liberalism, pan-Europeanism.

political theory (noun)	democracy (noun)
an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation	the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
	the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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