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Published on: 24/09/2019
What is Democracy? Why Democracy?
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1.
What distinguishes democracy from other forms of government?
2.
Which form of government is considered nondemocratic?
3.
Under which form of government political equality is given importance?
4.
Write some common features of the non-democratic countries.
5.
Define : Democracy
6.
Consider the following facts about a country and decide if you would call it a democracy. Give reasons to support your decision.
Several organisations have given a call for peaceful demonstrations and nation wide strikes in the country to oppose these policies. Government has arrested these leaders.
7.
Are the following statements in keeping with democracy as a value? Why?
Employee to the officer: Our working hours must be reduced according to the law.
8.
Write a response to the following arguments against democracy?
Army is the most disciplined and corruption-free organisation in the country. Therefore army should rule the country.
9.
In which year Zimbabwe got independence?
10.
Each of these statements contains a democratic and an undemocratic element. Write out the two separately for each statement.
Women’s representation in the parliament has barely reached 10 per cent. This led women’s organisations to demand one-third seats for women.
11.
How election in India are different then Mexico?
12.
After how many years does Mexico hold elections for electing its President?
13.
Here is some information about country. Based on this information how would you classify each of these countries. Write 'democartic','undemocratic' or 'not sure' against each of these
Country A : People who do not accept the counntry's official religion do not have a right to vote
14.
Which party was ruling in Mexico since 1930 to 2000? Does it go against the principle of democracy?
15.
Election in China do not represent people's verdict Explain
1.
Democracy depends on active political participation by all the citizens. Other forms of Government like monarchy, dictatorship, or one party rule do not require all citizens to take part in politics. In democracy the fate of the country depends not just what the rulers do but also on the actions of the citizens.
2.
The government which is not elected by the people based on universal adult franschise and have no right to change it. The different types of non-democratic governments are Dictatorship and Monarchy.
3.
Under democratic government political equality is given importance.
4.
Some features of nondemocratic countries are:
(i) Citizen does not have the right to elect the government
(ii) There is an absence of freedom and right to protest, criticise and oppose the government.
5.
Democracy is a form of government in which the rulers are elected by the people. The word democracy comes from a Greek word demokratia. In Greek 'demos' means people and 'kratia' means rule. So democracy is rule by the people.
6.
All democratic countries give their citizens the right to strike. It is democratic.
7.
Democratic. Empolyees enjoy the right to work for fixed hours as fixed by law.
8.
Army rule is always undermocratic. Under this system, people do not enjoy freedom of speech and expression and are not allowed to critise the government. Military rule is another name for dictatorship. Moreover, many armymen are not disciplined and are corrupt.
9.
1980
10.
Demand by Women's Organisation to reserve one-third seats for women democratic whereas less than 10 per cent women's representation in the Parliament is undemocratic.
11.
In India, election is conducted under a supervision of Election Commission,and the process of election,is largely free and fair as compare to Mexico.
12.
Six years
13.
Undemocratic
14.
PRI(Institutional Revolutionary Party)
Yes, the electoral practice in Mexico goes against the principle of democracy because:
(a) A party called PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) won every election.Opposition parties did not have any chance to win election
(b) The PRI used all kind of manipulations and employed dirty tricks to win elections
(c) Government, servant and teachers were forced to influence voters
(d) There was no independent media
(e) Sometimes the polling booths were shifted from one place to another in the last minute,which made it difficult for people to cast their votes.
(f) The PRI spent a large sum of money in the campaign for its candidates
(g) People seemed to really have a choice but in practise, they had no choice and could not he change to ruling party.Therefore, this type of election cannot be called fair election.
15.
The system of electoral practise in China is non-democratic.The people don't have real choice in electing the candidates
1. In china,election are regularly held after five years for electing the country's parliament,called Quanguo Renmin Daibiao (National People's Congress)
2. Before contesting election,a candidate needs the approval of the Chinese Communist Party.
3. Only those who are members of the Chinese Communist party or eight smaller parties.
4. The government is always formed by the Communist party.
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