A neutral observer would have no difficulty in identifying instances of disconnect between government and people, most obviously in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes where civil society's voices are muzzled and where peaceful protests are prohibited or severely suppressed,24 but also to a lesser degree in democracies, particularly representative democracies that do not genuinely represent, business-driven democracies and so-called lobby-democracies, where elected officials tend to be more responsive to the lobbies than to the population.

United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IntOrder/A-...[ohchr.org]