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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Roman Theatre- • We look at Athens because we have the most sources • Most important form of entertainment • Very open‚ did not really need money to go to the theatre • Profound religious associations • Played an important political role • Stage was‚ like the agora‚ democracy was discussed and displayed in front of the Romans • Romans owed a lot to the Greeks in terms of theatre. They were very influenced by the Greeks • We see this in the architecture of the theatre • But Romans were
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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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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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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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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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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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Athens Democracy The first person to define democracy was an Athenian leader called Cleisthenes. He called it Demokratia‚ which meant rule by people. In their democracy‚ only male citizens who were older than eighteen could participate. Demokratia gave a strong structure to the Athenian government‚ which served as a model for future governments in the world. The Demokratia had three main institutions. The first one is the Ekklesia‚ which is an assembly in which all qualified citizens could participate
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Representative Democracy In participative democracy it brings the means of the citizens are also participating in the democratic action as well by selecting the representatives for them to help voice out their demands. This sentence explained the fact that participative democracy gives power to their citizens as well to help lead the country. For example is like what we have here in Malaysia‚ our citizens have the power to choose who their leaders will be. Every single state and region is set up
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rapid growth in it’s use but also it’s incessent popularity‚ we might ask ourselves how it is affecting our society and whether it’s helping the world become more democratic‚ or the complete contrary. “The Internet is populated by second-rate amateurs that are destroying our culture” says Andrew Keen‚ author of The Cult of The Amateur or How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. Though he was originally for the Internet‚ Keen has now become the self titled “antichrist
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