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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Week 3 : The Ancient Greece Democracy in Ancient Greece was the ideal way of governing‚ since all the citizens could take part to the political life. To this day‚ Athens represents the only example of a direct democracy. The Persians have always had a very different culture from the Greek culture‚ so we can call it almost the opposite. The Persians have tried to conquer the Greek islands many times‚ but every time the Greek countries (that used to fight each other) have found the power to unite
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regionalist and micro-nationalist movements threaten democracy in Europe or‚ conversely‚ present it with new opportunities? ____________________________________________________________ ______________ Twenty years ago‚ the wall that was separating West and East Germany was opened and the Cold War came to an end. The breakdown of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism that accompanied it brought about the victory of market economy and democracy in Europe. It also engendered the emergence
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CAN NIGERIA ’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? BY Emmanuel 0. Ojo (Ph.D) Department of Political Science University of Ilorin‚ Nigeria P. F. Adebayo (Ph.D) Lebanese Emigration Research Center‚ Notre Dame University‚ Lebanon ABSTRACT By May 2009‚ Nigeria ’s nascent democracy should have been a decade. Thus‚ the thrust of this paper is an in depth analysis of the possibility of sustaining democratic values beyond any sudden reversal. The. paper however‚ takes a cursory look at the daunting challenges
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Exporting Democracy Democracy is a system of government based on the idea that citizens should play an influential role in the actions and decisions it makes for its people. This is usually done through elections to assign public officials who represent their views on political issues. These ideas and values of democracy have proved to be an extremely important aspect of American life. While the United States had found it successful to operate its government based on these rules and ideas‚ other
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ranking list of WorldAudit.org‚ a leading observer in the field of democracy‚ corruption and human rights. It seems to be a truly democratic country‚ but is it really democratic? Or is it just a country that is not too undemocratic? We will evaluate this‚ by looking at what democracy precisely is and how it is implemented in the Dutch society. The robustness of the Dutch democracy will also be looked at. Definition of democracy According to Locke‚ humans are naturally free‚ equal and independent
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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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must practice procedural democracy and substantive democracy. A solid foundation and variety of different procedures is what makes a democracy work as it does for us today. There will always be problems with any system and there will always be someone complaining about how the government works. Without a doubt‚ we will never have a perfect government and we will probably never find one person without some sort of disagreement with the way things are run. But‚ a democracy is run off of compromises
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EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY South Asian countries have fundamentally regarded economic development as a political matter. Another thing that differentiates South Asia is her commitment to egalitarianism in terms of planning. In terms of guiding beliefs‚ there is a similarity between South Asia and the West. However‚ a time dimension is involved. During West Asia’s development period‚ social welfare was still in its early stages. Social welfare was part of abstracts by scholars and even rebels
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Democracy without discipline is a body without soul. If there is no discipline in the country‚ democracy will degenerate into a monocracy i.e.‚ a Government by a unruly crowd. In fact‚ in Greek ‘Demos’ means crowd. The word ‘curacy’ is from the Greek word ‘Krait’ or ‘Cratos’ which means power. A lack of discipline in democracy justifies Plato’s criticism that democracy is the divine right of the ignorant people to rule ignorantly. 6It is true that democracy is based on the free will of the people
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