Similarities and differences between democratic and non-democratic states

Have you ever thought about the advantages and disadvantages of having a democratic
state? There are lots of them, for instance, if it’s a centralised or a decentralised state, the
type of democratic state, the variety of political parties, the right to vote and many more.

First and foremost, we need to know the different meanings of each term, a democratic state
is a state where citizens participate in government and can hold assemblies and
referendums, moreover, as there are many citizens, we need normally a representative,
whereas, a non-democratic state is a state in which only one person or a very small number
of people control all the power.
On one hand, in a democracy, we have different political parties and we have elections
every four years. On the other hand, in a republic, as there is only one person who has most
of the power, as a consequence, we neither have different political parties nor any elections.
Furthermore, something we can see is that normally in a democracy, we have a
decentralised state in which in the case of Spain, each autonomous community has their
own laws.

Secondly, we have different types of democratic and non-democratic states, firstly in a

democratic state we have constitutional monarchies and republics and they can be
centralised or decentralised. In the case of non-democratic states, we have two different
types, absolute monarchies, in which there is a king that has all the power and dictates on
laws, govern and judge. These types of monarchies are normally hereditary.
At the same time, we also have dictatorships in which there is a person or a very close group
of people who have absolute power. These are normally supported by an ethnic group or the
army.

In a nutshell, I think that the best option regarding these two is a democratic state because
as a citizen you have the right to vote and there are different political parties.