Democracy really has two major aspects

The misuse of democracy by Bush in what we can call capitalist democracy and human development democracy, what I call the democracy project and I thin we need to include islamic democracy.

The democracy project is the overall perspective on why democracy is important, and capitalist democracy and islamic democracy are two culture specific versions.

Here is a good reference on "democracy"

http://www.mmisi.org/ir/41_02/hittinger.pdf

and see some notes at http://carmichael.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/democratic-illusion-whose