The Romans added representative democracy in which the electors chose representatives (tribunes, consuls and the like) but were not permitted to participate directly in government. This is called a Republic, and is not a full Democracy.
Along with the process for electing representatives they also introduced methods for campaigning and electioneering such as promising social welfare in return for being elected. This led to Cicero's complaint that politics was all about "bread and circuses", the free food and free entertainment that politicians offered. To pay for this they exploited people who could not vote, mostly in the poorer colonies, taking grain and slaves and victims with which to bribe the electors in Rome. While the concept of republics is that the government exists and functions for the good of the people, in practice the Roman Republic became very corrupt.
By developing democratic election of representatives and by not valuing liberal education like the Greeks had, the Romans undermined democracy and introduced forms of corruption that republics continue to experience today.
Nonetheless many modern state fathers have looked to Rome for the good ideals that the Roman Republic originally stood for, and hence set up systems that have largely developed the same defects that the Roman Republic suffered from.
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Democracy
Republic and democracy are two different things. A Republic can be a democracy, just as a constitutional monarchy today can be a democracy. Democracy existed in the Roman Republic, as it had three different assemblies of the citizens (Centuriate, Tribal, Plebeian). Athens went through phases - monarchy, oligarchy, limited democracy, radical democracy.
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The Roman road system did not have any influence whatsoever on the spread of democracy. Neither Rome nor the Roman Empire were democracies. Democracy was a Greek concept. There were some democracies in some Greek city-states, but then they collapsed. Democracy as we know it now started to develop some 1,200 years after the Romans.
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Democracy
Technically, the Romans had a republic, not a democracy. Romans voted for their political leaders (consuls, praetors, tribunes, aediles, and quaestors). Elected politicians gained entry into the Senate, the ruling political body of the Republic. The elected officials also ran the military campaigns.
Democracy and democrat are Greek words. Democracy means power by the people (demos)
democracy
Government by the people. < ----correct novanet answer.
Roman's did a few things to expand their democracy. They made more people and money.
Their territory was too large to govern by democracy
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
DIRECT DEMOCRACY