Question

explain 4 consequences on which democracy has failed

Answer 1

Democratic form of government has been questioned on many fronts. There are number of flaws associated with it, the biggest however could be :

a. Democracy is all about numbers, it gives more importance to quantity than quality. In order to form the government, political parties try to muster support, so as to get maximum support and to have numbers by their side. Thus, they exploit social divisions, like caste, religion for narrow political gains and use muscle and money power to come to power.

b. Democratic governments are characterized by political instability, if the government loses majority it falls.

c.Its a form of government which involves delays, red tapism , corruption in the decision making process.

d. It is associated with slow economic growth, it has failed to counter poverty, to reduce economic disparities.

Answer 2

Answer:

Democracy is the form of government in which there is rule of people.

Explanation:

Democracy has failes due to the follwing reasons:

• Firstly, it deals with majority. It gives higher value to majority decisions so the people or group having minority does not get space to share their valuable opinions.
• It involves opinions of majority which led to delays in the decison making process and this causes political instability.
• It is associated with delayed decison making process in all ways leading to slow economic growth leading to the rise of poverty.
• The majority decisions somehow lead to the rise of exploitation of minority groups leading to the rise lf colonialism.