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Axes

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Quadrants

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The term "election" originates from the Latin verb eligere, which translates as "to pick out." Etymologically, this verb is very close to seligere - to select, to choose. The term elite also derives from eligere; thus a democracy is an "elective polyarchy" in a descriptive sense and a "selective polyarchy" in a normative sense.