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    indian democracy

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    Is India a functional democracy? - Against As stated by late Winston Churchill‚ “Majority is not always right‚ it’s just powerful.” Since India’s independence in 1947‚ the country has seen successive populist governments‚ each coming to power with hollow promises of socioeconomic welfare. It was soon that the oppressed and poor population of the country discovered that they can vote themselves the largesse of public treasury given in the forms of subsidies‚ concessions‚ and other indirect freebies

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    Democracy in India

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    THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY Part One: The entire world is in transition. The developed parts of it‚ principally the nations of the so called “West”‚ have achieved multi-generational democracies‚ while most of the world’s population still lives under regimes that are thinly disguised vestiges of 8th century‚ pre-democratic autocracies. There is always a local transitional moment‚ that chaotic time period before the achievement of any democracy in a given place but after the demise of the predecessor

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    Democracy and the Internet

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    but on the other narcissitic and self important “we broadcast to our friends instead of learning from strangers”. In his eyes‚ the consecuence of this is the fragmentation of society‚ making all truths personal‚ therefore‚ taking a step away from democracy. “The web is the next stage of capitalism” he says in his interview on BBC Radio 4‚ explaining that the foundation and the values of the Internet‚ which can never be detached from it‚ are obsessed with being decentralised or ’on the edge’‚ and that

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    Concepts of Democracy

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    The first basic concept of a democracy is the recognition of the worth of every individual. The government respects every single person and appreciates his or her existence. On top of that‚ they also recognize that they must do what is right for the common good. A democratic government cares about the common good‚ while still valuing each individual. This is evident in each decision the U.S. government makes. The next belief is the equality of all people. A Democratic government should give

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    Democracy and Development

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    Parliament and Democracy in the 21st Century Preliminary Report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union Convened by the Inter-Parliamentary Union at United Nations headquarters‚ New York‚ 7 to 9 September 2005 -2- Contents FOREWORD ..................................................................................................................4 1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................5 THE PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTION

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    Liberal Democracy

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    LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Liberal democracy is the form of governance that is mostly related with the modern nation state. However‚ it cannot be said that all nation states have liberal democracy‚ like Fascist Italy which was an authoritarian regime. Democratization is the transformation of political‚ economic and social structures from authoritarian or totalitarian rule to liberal democracy. After the transition stage of democratization is completed‚ consolidation stage begins. The consolidation stage

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    Fear of Democracy

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    ‘A fear of democracy runs throughout liberalism’ Discuss. 45 Marks (Jan 2011) Some political thinkers have argued that Liberalism can be defined by its fear of democracy. Democracy is ‘rule by the people’‚ this term suggests that there is popular participation and also public interest within government. While liberals fear democracy they know and see it as the best possible way. As there is a clear fear of it lying underneath the liberal ideology‚ there are obvious arguments for and against this

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    Dahl "On Democracy"

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    Dahl’s “On Democracy” Early in Dahl’s book he answers the question “what is democracy?” by enumerating a list of five criteria that must be met in order for a government to be recognized as fully democratic. These criteria involve all citizens having equal and satisfactory opportunities to participate in the steering of policy. To realize all of these criteria would mean that it has achieved ‘ideal’ democracy‚ but Dahl concedes that it is not practical to expect a perfect democracy given the realities

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    Pillars of Democracy

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    Democracy is a political form of government in which governing power is derived from the people‚ by consensus (consensus democracy)‚ by direct referendum (direct democracy)‚ or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The term comes from the Greek word (dēmokratía) "rule of the people"‚ which was coined from (dêmos) "people" and (Kratos) "power". There is no universal definition of the term democracy‚ people like the late USA president ABRAHAM LINCOLN define

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    Cultural Democracy

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    Democracy in America: Individualism and Materialism. Volume 1 concentrates on the influence on democratic social state on laws and political mores. * Democracy in America * Impressed and optimistic Volume 2 concentrates on the influence of democratic social state on civil society and culture. * Democracy as such. * Apprehensive and gloomy. Volume II Part I: Chapter 1: On the Philosophic method of the Americans * “It is religion that gave birth to the Anglo-American

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