meaning and nature of democracy in 20th century
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During the 20th century the number of countries possessing the basic political institutions of representative democracyincreased significantly. At the beginning of the 21st century, independent observers agreed that more than one-third of the world’s nominally independent countries possessed democratic institutions comparable to those of the English-speaking countries and the older democracies of continental Europe. In an additional one-sixth of the world’s countries, these institutions, though somewhat defective, nevertheless provided historically high levels of democratic government. Altogether, these democratic and near-democratic countries contained nearly half the world’s population. What accounted for this rapid expansion of democratic institutions?
More or less in the 20th century maximum countries are having the democratic form of government. There are regular election in almost every democratic country through free and fair method. People's participation is increasing in the 20th century democracy and the 20th century democracy also based on equality, justice, liberty and all the principle which are needed for strengthening and making real democracy. Maximum democratic country follow the principle of Rule of Law and are guided by the constitution. But after looking at the largest democracy(India) and oldest democracy( USA), the 20th century democracy can be defined as Liberal form of democracy.