Question

"Democracy is seen to be good in principle but felt to be not so good in practice." Justify the statement.

Answer 1

The reasons for this:

(i) The decision-making process in democracy is delayed.

(ii) Democracies often frustrate the needs of the people.

(iii) It often ignore the demands of majority of its population.

(iv) The routine tales of corruption associated with it.

(v) Most democracies fall short of elections that provide fair chance to everyone and in subjecting every decision to public debate.