Democracy vs. Dictatorship
Democracy vs. Dictatorship. From the beginnings of the times, from ancient civilizations dated as back as 2000 B.C.E., the world had been based upon political systems and philosophies of governments. A country’s philosophy of government determines the economic system and the amount of rights that people have within that country’s borders. As people can see, in the article written by Severine Deneulin “Democracy and human development”, she explains the complexities of the relationship between democracy and human development, there she made it clear that the practice of democracy is good whether or not the government chose has a positive impact in the society of that country. Another article about countries’ governmental philosophies was written by Gene Sharp, and it is called “From dictatorship to democracy”. Throughout the entire article, Sharp said that it was wrong to compare democracy to communism because communism is an economic system and democracy is a political system, and that’s why he compared democracy and dictatorship. Within the lines of that article, Sharp mentioned that dictators are the result of having a disunited society in those countries, and that people should protest against the dictators to get their rights back as well. Therefore, everyone’s way of living Is affected by their country’s philosophy of government in a direct way. To begin with, a country’s philosophy of government determines the country’s economic system. Economy is a matter of leadership, it is a matter of knowing when to take decisions, and these decisions are supposed to be taken by the country’s president or senate. Therefore, politics impact economy in a direct way. In democracy, people rule the country, and therefore they rule the economic system, which makes that economic system stronger because as Deneulin said “The ultimate aim of participation is increased accountability, transparency and efficiency of these governance structures in promoting