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THE Indian people have been dogged by a rather macabre paradox in recent years, and it has forcefully struck once again this year. Production of foodgrains – cereals mostly – reaches “record” levels every passing year and yet retail prices continue upwards, government procurement languishes or even declines, and the farmers are ...
People's democracy is a theoretical concept within Marxism–Leninism and a form of government which developed after World War II and allows in theory for a multi-class and multi-party democracy on the pathway to socialism. People's democracy was established in a number of European and Asian countries as a result of the people's democratic ...
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Jun 18, 2024 · Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives. The term is derived from the Greek ‘demokratia,’ which was coined in the 5th century BCE to denote the political systems of some Greek city-states, notably Athens.
Jun 20, 2024 · The concept of “people's democracy” has posed a real ideological dilemma for the U.S.S.R. Prior to the spring of 1948 Soviet theory was confronted with the fact that—partly because of Soviet policy itself—eastern Europe was not developing toward socialism by exactly the same pattern of violent revolutionary change which the U.S.S.R. had experien...
Jul 27, 2006 · Democracy. First published Thu Jul 27, 2006; substantive revision Tue Jun 18, 2024. Normative democratic theory deals with the moral foundations of democracy and democratic institutions, as well as the moral duties of democratic representatives and citizens.
Through democracy, people are able to realize the full potential of their collective interest and break down social barriers such as class, race, and gender. However, “democracy is not something out there waiting to be reached.
Democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirectly decided by the “people,” a group historically constituted by only a minority of the population (e.g., all free adult males in ancient Athens or all sufficiently propertied adult males in 19th ...
Nov 19, 2020 · The discussion so far has highlighted that researchers using the concept of democracy face a choice not only between understandings of what it should mean for the people to rule (the Electoral, Liberal, Participatory, Deliberative and Egalitarian conceptions prioritized by V-Dem, or other possibilities) but also a choice between understandings ...
Jun 12, 2017 · This paper attempts to explain disparities in living conditions within democracies by disaggregating democratic regimes and analysing the relationship between individual democratic attributes and human well-being outcomes. Human well-being can be conceptualised through subjective and objective perspectives.
