Question

”Democratic governments in practice are known as accountable,” Support the statement with arguments.

Answer 1

Democratic governments in practice are accountable because:
(i) lt is right to expect democracy to form a government that follows procedures and is accountable to the people.
(ii) It is also expected that the democratic government develops mechanisms for citizens to take part in decision making whenever they think it as fit.
(iii) The democratic government is accountable to the people. If it ignores the will of the people they will not elect their ruler in the next general elections.
(iv) The procedures and decision making process should be transparent for democratic government to be accountable to the people.

Answer 2

Democratic government in practice are known as accountable as :

The people elect the government and is thus responsible to them.

Democratic government is answerable to the people for their actions and policies.

The policies and decisions of the government are mostly transparent.

In most democracies of the world, the citizens can seek answer of the actions of the government through Right to Information (RTI Act).

In Democracy the citizens have the power to replace the government if the later is the not accountable and went against the will of people.