Is India a functional democracy? - Against As stated by late Winston Churchill‚ “Majority is not always right‚ it’s just powerful.” Since India’s independence in 1947‚ the country has seen successive populist governments‚ each coming to power with hollow promises of socioeconomic welfare. It was soon that the oppressed and poor population of the country discovered that they can vote themselves the largesse of public treasury given in the forms of subsidies‚ concessions‚ and other indirect freebies
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Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th President of the United States of America‚ aptly defined democracy as a government of the people‚ by the people and for the people. Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th President of the United States of America‚ aptly defined democracy as a government of the people‚ by the people and for the people. This definition clearly underlines the basic tenet that‚ in this- form of government‚ people are supreme. The ultimate power is in their hands and they exercise it in the form of electing
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‘Is Indian Democracy Alive and Kicking?’ “As I would not be a slave‚ so I would not be a master.” This was the idea of Abraham Lincoln’s about democracy. Though very true in its basic form‚ does this idea hold true In the Indian context? After completing 62 years of being a ‘sovereign‚ socialist‚ secular and democratic republic’ and currently being in the 65th year of its independence‚ we can definitely call India a successful democracy for sustaining all the ups and downs in these years. The political
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India is the largest functioning democracy in the world. It got freedom during the most sensitive period of world history. Two global wars were fought to make the world safe for democracy. In fact‚ the second global war accelerated the process of freedom from bondage. Though the armed clash was over yet tension was mounting up due to new ideological rivalry between East and West led by the then Soviet Union and the United States of America. The newly founded United Nations grew amidst the
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For the use of the term "democracy" as referring to a system involving multiparty elections‚ representative government‚ and freedom of speech. Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Democracy allows eligible citizens to participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the proposal‚ development‚ and creation of laws. It encompasses social‚ economic and cultural conditions that enable the
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Can post-colonial India ’s political experience be characterized as moving towards becoming more democratic Democracy‚ the form of government where supreme power is directly or indirectly vested in people‚ has become a global discourse that can be gauged from the fact that many post-colonial countries have adopted it with remarkable success. The dramatic global expansion of democracy in the last few decades in post-colonial countries speak volume of this most popular form of representative government
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Anarchy: depending on what side of the argument a person is on‚ there are many definitions. If the discussion is about roots‚ the ‘an’ of anarchy means without and archon or ‘archy’ means master or ruler‚ so the definition would be a society without rules. My definition would be a society with no established government and no person rules over another. One of the benefits of an anarchy is that there is complete freedom. There is no leadership‚ or government. Each person has jurisdiction over their
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Title Page A REFUTATION OF ROBERT D. KAPLAN’S THESIS‚ AS PROPOSED IN THE 1994 ARTICLE “THE COMING ANARCHY‚” USING THE ARGUMENT THAT HIS EXTRAPOLATIONS OF THE EVENTS IN WEST AFRICA BEING AN INDICATOR OF THE FUTURE STATE OF THE WORLD ARE ERRONEOUS A Thesis Submitted to the American Graduate School Of International Relations and Diplomacy In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts By Omar Bandar‚ A.A.‚ B.S. __________ Douglas A. Yates‚ Advisor
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The Indian Constitution‚ 1950 following the British model‚ created a system of parliamentary democracy. Upto 1947‚ when India became independent‚ it was still a largely feudal‚ agricultural country. The British policy was to keep us largely unindustrialized‚ since an industrial India‚ with its cheap labour‚ could become a powerful rival to British industry. The Indian Constitution was based on Western models. We borrowed parliamentary democracy and an independent judiciary
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Introduction Democracy is a form of government where people surrender some of their rights to a small elite body who are elected by people to rule over themselves. This elite body or the public representatives make law for the betterment of people. Once elected the public representatives remain all powerful till the end of the term by constitutional provision or otherwise because the constitution does not provide “call back” power to the people. The assumed principle is that these public representatives
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