Question

What are the merits and demerits of democracy and non democracy?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

MERITS OF DEMOCRACY :

1. The participation of the individual members in the government facilitates to enlist their sympathy and co - operation to the success of the government.
2. It is an effective form to educate the public about political, economic and social affairs.
3.    it is helpful to promote patriotism among the people and prevents occurrence of violent revolutions.
4.   It helps to make progress and development and enables changes to take place in a peaceful manner.
5.     It ensures to the people freedom of speech, conscience, assembly and action.
6.     It guarantees liberty and equality, which are necessary for human development.

DEMERITS OF DEMOCRACY :

1. It sometimes leads to establish the majority view over the minority view.  

2.  Party leaders and political office holders in government control the citizens and the members of the party.

3.  It does not encourage individuals to give their opinions.  

4.     It is a very expensive form of government because elections have to be conducted periodically to various office.

5.     It is difficult to prevent corruption and malpractices.

6.  It is also known as government by amateurs and lead to domination of masses.

Merits of Non Democracy :

(i) Centre of economic life shifted from the villages to cities and towns where the factories were situated.

(ii) Urban (cities) and rural (villages) life became dependant upon one an­other. Isolated life of self-sufficient villages came to an end.

(iii) Men became free to develop their capabilities in areas other than farming.

(iv) It brought countries and people together. There was an international aware­ness among people because developments in one country influenced the others.

(v) The aristocracy and nobility with their feudal ideas were replaced by the newly rich middle class capitalists bourgeoisie) who also became politi­cally powerful.

(vi) Better transport, communications and mechanized goods made life com­fortable for man.

Demerits of Non Democracy

(i) Cities became crowded, smoky, with problems of slums, housing, sanitation accidents and epidemics.

(ii) Women and child labour was badly exploited.

(iii) Workers suffered from long working hours, low wages, and unemployment, unsafe conditions of work, with no rights to vote strike or form trade unions.

(iv) Society, became divided into rich and poor, the 'Haves' and the 'Have- Nots'.

(v) It led to wars of imperialism and colonization.

Answer 2

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leaders keeps on changing this leads to instability.

democracy is all about political competition and power play there is no scope for morality.

so many people have to be consulted in a democracy that it leads to delays.

democracy leads to corruption for it is based on electoral competition.