Failure of Democracy in Pakistan Almost 150 years ago‚ Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as a Government of the people‚ by the people and for the people. Democracy is a form of government in which the authority of government is based on the will of masses. Democracy aims at defining the relationship between the ruler and the masses in such a manner that primacy is assigned to the latter. After sixty years of its existence as an independent country democracy has remained an elusive dream in Pakistan
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Nigeria is named after the Niger River. A British journalist in the 1890s named Flora Shaw suggested the name because of the river was a dominant presence in region and the name was accepted as the official name of those territories in the Niger Region. (ANYANWU) The country can be divided into three regions that include the forest lands in the south‚ the Sudan savanna in the north‚ and the Middle Belt‚ in between. Nigeria has an extensive geographic size‚ with a large degree of ecological‚ economic
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Democracy‚ also known as democratic government‚ is essentially a government by the people. It is a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people‚ but sometimes exercised indirectly through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed during elections. Democracy differs from other types of government.For example‚ absolute monarchy‚ in which an individual holds all the power‚ or oligarchy‚ in which a few individuals hold all the power. There
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its advantages and disadvantages to Nigeria. Introduction: Nigeria is a country located in West Africa; it has a population of about 160‚027‚000 (World Economic Fact Book 2010). Its main produce is oil and petroleum; the country is also a key producer of rice‚ cocoa and palm-oil in West Africa. (See Appendix 1).Nigeria belongs to a number of economic blocs
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lived in a democracy‚ Pericles goes out of his way to remind them of this as a means of praising and extolling the uniqueness of Athens and its system of government. It also supports the argument that Athens has a way of life that is superior to other poli within Greece‚ and its people must therefore fight for it and the values it upholds as a democracy. In fact‚ one way of looking at Pericles’ ancestor reference in the previous section could be as build up to this next point - the role Athens plays
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compatible with democracy. Seemed as a simple question‚ such an inquiry requires an in-depth look at the matter at hand. When one asks whether Islam is compatible with democracy‚ one needs to analyze the definition of democracy. According to Webster’s Dictionary‚ democracy is “a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or their elected agents under a free electoral system.” Such is the definition that mainly pertains to western democracy and western
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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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advantages referred to as ‘Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Combination of technologies have brought rapid changes in some areas‚ predominantly in knowledge management‚ covering aspects of knowledge creation‚ processing‚ storage‚ sharing‚ dissemination‚ collaboration and human resource development‚ in the level of education and training as well as work output and productivity. To overcome the lag in adoption of ICT in the country‚ the Government of Cambodia has committed to the development
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The Philippines And the struggle for democracy The second half of the 20th century brought many new countries in Southeast Asia. A majority of these countries began to use western democracies to shape their government. The Philippines is among the newly democratized developing states. The Philippines has been directly influenced by the United States in developing its autonomy as a democracy. Because of continuing corruption and dynastic rule‚ contradictions in political culture‚ and semi-authoritarian
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strengths of Representative democracy? Representative democracy is a form of democracy which emerged in the 17th century that implements the majority of citizens in a state are represented by a minority of office holders‚ in the UK we have Representative Democracy through Parliament. Citizens are represented by Members of Parliament who are elected through their constituencies. Representative democracy is considered a more effective form of government than direct democracy because of the following
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