INTRODUCTION . Democracy. Democracy means ‘rule by people’ taken from a Greek terms, Demos (meaning people)and Kratos (meaning “rule”) .It is a political concept and form of government , where all people are supposed to have equal voices in shaping policy(.Andrew , H,2007.politics.3rd ed, New york: Palgrave Macmillan).Democracy is defined in numerous ways. Definitions aligned to democracy are seen as follows: A system of rule by the poor and disadvantaged. A system of decision making based on
return to a supposedly original core Islamic praxis as a way of overcoming the west. Both movement of modernism and Islamism are now still thriving. Western democracy considered conducive to achieving the aspirations of living in modernity by rule out the divinity concept from the state. This is seemingly incompatible between Islam and democracy if the discourses are involving Islamism and democratic
Democracy is easy to define, yet not always easy to execute. To get a basic definition one can pull directly from the Greek origins of the word democracy, meaning power by the people. By this definition, any state that allows its citizens minimal input in its government could be considered a democracy, but adhering to the basic level of democracy does not necessarily mean a state has an effective democracy. To expand on an idea of Guillermo O’Donnell’s, a democratic state is a fundamental component
and hijacked by vested interests and those who resist change. Challenges to Indian democracy India is a country with diversity – linguistically, culturally, and religiously. There were huge regional disparities, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and scarcity of almost all public welfare means at the time of independence. There are number of problems that the country faces in terms of fulfilment of expectations of various sectors of society. The challenges come both from prevailing domestic and
in the world, in terms of the technology, military power they owned in hand (Cold war history, 2009). As United States political system is practicing democracy, it stressed on liberalism and freedom. Democracy is a system whereby the government is rule by people and for the people, so more and more country transform their political system to democracy for example, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and so on (Marc
Antoine Simon (1179141) Democracy in Theory and Practice Definitions of Democracy and Theories of Government Having a look through History at the different type of governments which have been used, Democracy, with all its imperfections, seems to be the best that came up so far. The meaning of Democracy hasn't stopped to vary with the time and space and has therefore become a “semantic jungle”1. Originally, the term comes from Greek, it means
In order to recognize the first 100 years of independence, the people of France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States. This historic statue was created by France in order to recognize the ideologies of freedom and democracy of the United States. The Statue of Liberty became a symbol of freedom, liberty, and peace not only for the United States itself, but people migrating to the country from all over the world. French politician Édouard René Lefèvre de Laboulaye and other fellow politicians
against Western Democracy The first norm of Thailand that has a substantial effect on the country’s perception about Western democracy is Thai Buddhism. Religion has been proven to have a significant influence on a state’s political system as Andrew Nathan, a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, argues that, “Religion forms an important component of political culture, and, thus, should have a powerful democracy.” As per one’s understanding, a powerful democracy that is meant by
N POLITICAL SCIENCE DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY TABLE OF CONTENTS Sr. # Topic Name Page # 1. Democracy and deversity 3 1.1 Diversity in Society 1.2 Diversity and Unity 1.3 Diversity and democratic politics 1.4 Diversity and inequalities 1.5 Inequality between Men and women 1.6 Religious Diversity and Democracy 1.7 Diversity and Share in power 1.8 Distribution of power in Federation Diversity in Society Meaning People inhabit in a town or city from Different
“Democracy is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly” . This definition does not explicitly determine who “the people” are. Realistically, in a democratic form of government the majority among the people has the power to make decisions binding upon the whole . The question that naturally arises when analysing the ideas expressed by Rousseau, Mill and Tocqueville is the following: to what extent the rule of the majority in a democracy