Question

What is essence of democracy? Is it decentralization of power or universal adult franchise? 10th standard political science question.

Answer 1

The essence of democracy is neither of them. Its essence is rule of the ruled people by electing their representative. As for universal adult franchise ,it is installed so as to enable everyone gets a right to electrical their representative while decentralisation of power was done so as to prevent the power accumulation in the hands of the elected few.

Answer 2

The transfer of power from central and state governments to local governments is called decentralization of power.

It is favoured in any democracy as it has the following advantages :-

1) The local people have better views on how to manage money.

2) These people have better knowledge about their problems and solution to resolve them.

3) It develops a practice of regular decision making among the people.

4) All the matters at the local level are resolved among the people themselves.

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