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WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES FACING DEMOCARCY?

POLITICAL SCIENCE 1101 RESEARCH PAPER

COMPILED BY

BALJIT SINGH

300191011

DOUGLAS COLLEGE

THIS PAPER WAS PREPARED FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE 1101, SECTION 050, TAUGHT BY PROFESSOR SHAUN TYAKOFF

Democracy is defined as ' The Government of the people, for the people, and by

The people, but there are many challenges facing democracy in many countries

across the world. India is a perfect example of a nation that is 'fully democratic ' even as it develops and faces several challenges. This paper is divided into two different parts showing the problems facing Indian Democracy. The first part briefly talks about the Inequality among peoples in India. Inequality is also divided into three main categories such as Geographic, Social and Demographic. The second part is an approach to identify the problem of corruption among political leaders and discussing the development of criminalization of politics.

One of the major issues facing Indian democracy today is Inequality among the citizens of India, weather it is Geographic Inequality, Social Inequality, or Demographic Inequality. First of all, Geographic inequality occurs when a government and citizens of different regions have unequal parliament representation. Geographic inequality is a big issue India is facing today because of its uneven density of representatives per population (D.Joshi, 2012,402). Geographic inequality also occurs when the party they are choosing does not represent voters in a district. In statistics it showed that, in 2009, India 's 543 LS constituencies averaged 14.9 candidates, but only one representative was elected by each district (D.Joshi, 2012, 402). The statistics showed that it was only half of the voters in every constituency with no representation at district level.

Another big issue Indian democracy is facing is Demographic Inequality, this type of inequality occurs when the government of the nation fails to reflect the class, gender, age,


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