State briefly the various forms of power sharing?
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In modern democracies, power sharing can take the following forms:
1. Organs of Government: In democracy, power shared
among Legislature, Executive and Juduciary.This is known as distribution
of power, it allows different organs of government placed at the same
level to excercise different powers. No organ can excercise unlimited
power as each organ checks the others.
2. Governments at different levels:
In federal form of government, power is shared between the central and
state governments. In India there is another lower level of government
-local self government.This is called vertical division of government.
3. Social Groups:
Power may also be shared among different social groups such as
religious and linguistic groups. In iIndia there are constitutional and
legal arrangements whereby socially weaker sections and women are
represented in the legislatures and administration.