Question

Democracy is the most popular form of government emerging in the modern times; still the shortcomings cannot be ruled out.’’ Justify the statement by assessing the shortcomings of democracy.

Answer 1

Answer:

*Shortcomings or demerits of democracy are

i. In the democratic form of government, leaders keep on changing, which leads to instability.

ii. There are political competition and power play everywhere. This situation does not follow any rules of morality.

iii. Elected leaders are unable to contact a large number of people and can hardly guess about the real problems of the people, which results in wrong decisions, delay of work, etc.

iv. A large number of people are illiterate. They do not know what is good for them. So, they cannot decide anything properly.

v. Democracy leads to corruption, for it is based on electoral competition. To win the election, political parties adopt corrupt practices.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Democracy is the most popular form of government emerging in the modern times; still the shortcomings cannot be ruled out.

Explanation:

The demerits of a democracy can be listed as follows-

1. Instability- As the opposition has the right to criticize the ruling party the government can collapse and change over time without have sufficient time to work by their manifesto. Instability also occurs because of the regular elections that get organized over short a short period of time of 5 years.
2. Slow and Inefficient - Lengthy and time consuming process to pass a law or enforce a new strategy over such big distribution of power. This also gives place to corruption because there are many people involved on the various stages with different sorts of power.
3. Lack of Morality - Because of a such competitive environment created for elections the parties running for the seats may us unfair means or do some illegal and immoral things to get themselves situated in position of power.

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