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Chapter At A Glance
- The expected and actual outcomes of democracy in various aspects are quality of government, economic well being, social differences, conflicts and finally freedom and dignity.
- Democracy is actually better than dictatorship because it gives freedom of speech to every one and it promotes the sense of equality among its citizens.
- Democracy is good for all the countries because it gives accountable, responsive and legitimate government to the country.
- We can see the transparency in the functioning of democratic government which is often missing from a non - democratic government.
- Actual performance of democracies has mixed record. On one side it has great success in holding regular and fair elections but their record in sharing information with public is very low.
- The idea of democracy has overwhelming support all over the world because the government in it is a legitimate government and democratic government is people's own government.
- It is right democracies produce good government but democracies are unable to produce the good economic development of the country because decision making process takes a lot of time.
- Democracies are based on political equality and all the citizens of the country have equal weight in electing representative but this process of bringing individuals in political area on the basis of equality brings economic inequalities.
- Actually democracies are unable to reduce economic inequality because they are unable to curb the economic development of any particular individual.
- No society can fully and permanently resolve conflicts among different groups but democracy is best suited to produce this result.
Important Terms & Their Explanation
- Democracy : Government of the people, for the people and by the people or rule of the people.
- Dictatorship : Rule of one person or few persons who have total power over the country especially one who has obtained it by force and uses it in a cruel way.
- Authoritarianism : An ideology which favours complete obedience to authority especially that of state at the expense of personal freedom.
- Democratic government : Government which is formed by the people, which works for the betterment of the masses and which gives equality to all its citizens.
- Democratic Politics : A politics which has formal constitutions, who hold regular elections, have political parties and guaranteed rights of citizen.
- Transparency : Through which every thing can be seen clearly.
- Legitimate government : Any government which is legally choosen or the people's government is legitimate government.
- Dignity : Honourable rank or the quality of being worthy of honour or respect.