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Correct and rewrite the following Statements When elected leaders are unaware of the best interest of people in any non- democratic country, it leads to their resignation from the politics​

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Explanation:

OVERVIEW

The stories and the analysis in the previous chapter gave us a sense of

what democracy is like. There we described some governments as

democratic and some as non-democratic. We saw how governments in

some of those countries changed from one form to the other. Let us now

draw general lessons from those stories and ask the more basic question:

What is democracy? What are its features? This chapter builds on a simple

definition of democracy. Step by step, we work out the meaning of the

terms involved in this definition. The aim here is to understand clearly the

bare minimum features of a democratic form of government. After going

through this chapter we should be able to distinguish a democratic form

of government from a non-democratic government. Towards the end of

this chapter, we step beyond this minimal objective and introduce a broader

idea of democracy.

In the previous chapter, we have seen that democracy is the most

prevalent form of government in the world today and it is expanding to

more countries. But why is it so? What makes it better than other forms of

government? That is the second big question that we take up in this chapter.

CHAPTER 2

What is

Democracy?

Why

Democracy?

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2.1 WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?

distinguishes these governments

from Pinochet’s rule in Chile,

communist rule in Poland or the later

period of Nkrumah’s rule in Ghana?

What do these governments have in

common with the military rule in

Myanmar? Why do we say that these

governments are not democratic?

On the basis of this analysis, write

down some common features of:

 Democratic governments

 Non-democratic governments

Why define democr ine democr ine democra c y?

Before we proceed further, let us

first take note of an objection by

Merry. She does not like this way

of defining democracy and wants

to ask some basic questions.

WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? WHY DEMOCRACY?

News items like this appear very often in newspapers.

Do they all use the word democracy in the same sense?

In Chapter One we read many stories

from different parts of the world.

Through these stories we discussed

various governments and

organisations. We called some of

these democracies. Others were

described as non-democracies. Can

you recall, for each of these countries,

something about the governments

that were described as democracies?

 Chile, before and after Pinochet’s

rule

 Poland, after the fall of communist

rule

 Ghana, in the early period of

Nkrumah’s government

What do you think is common to

them? Why do we club them all under

the label of democracy? What is it that

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Her teacher Matilda Lyngdoh

responds to her questions, as other

classmates join the discussion:

Merry: Ma’am, I don’t like this idea. First we

spend one whole chapter discussing democracies in different parts of the world and then

we want to find out the meaning of democracy. I mean logically shouldn’t we have approached it the other way round? Shouldn’t the

meaning have come first and then the example?

Lyngdoh Madam: I can see your point. But that

is not how we reason in everyday life. We use

words like pen, rain or love. Do we wait to have

a definition of these words before we use

them? Come to think of it, do we have clear

definition of these words? It is only by using a

word that we understand its meaning.

Merry: But then why do we need definitions at all?

Lyngdoh Madam: We need a definition only when

we come across a difficulty in the use of a word.

We need a definition of rain only when we wish

to distinguish it from, say, drizzle or cloudburst.

The same is true for democracy. We need a clear

definition only because people use it for different purposes, because very different kinds of

governments call themselves democracy.

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