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Democracy fosters accountable, responsive, and legitimate governance by allowing citizens to elect their rulers and participate in decision-making. It promotes transparency and mechanisms for accountability, although it may be slower and less efficient. While democracies can manage social differences better than non-democratic regimes, they may lag in economic development and can expose illegitimacy through flawed elections.

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Democracy fosters accountable, responsive, and legitimate governance by allowing citizens to elect their rulers and participate in decision-making. It promotes transparency and mechanisms for accountability, although it may be slower and less efficient. While democracies can manage social differences better than non-democratic regimes, they may lag in economic development and can expose illegitimacy through flawed elections.

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Outcomes of Democracy

Q41. “Democracy produces an accountable, responsive and


legitimate government.” Support the statement with arguments.

Solution

The statement is justified as follows:

(i) In a democracy people have the right to elect their rulers and
participate in decision making that affects them all. Government
thus, is accountable to the citizens and responsive to their needs and
expectations.

(ii) Democracy is based on the idea of deliberation and negotiation,


though it results in delays. It ensures that decision-making is based
on norms and procedures and allows transparency. Develops
mechanisms for citizens to hold the government accountable.

(iii) A democratic government is a legitimate government. It may be


slow, less efficient, not always very responsive or clean, but is the
people’s government. People wish to be ruled by representatives
elected by them.

Q42. Do democracies lead to peaceful and harmonious life among


citizens? Clarify.

Solution

The following points clarify the same:

(i) Non-democratic regimes often turn a blind eye to or suppress


internal social differences.
(ii) The ability to handle social differences, divisions, and conflicts is
thus a definite plus point of democratic regimes.
(iii) Democracy is not simply ruled by majority opinion, instead, rule
by majority does not become ruled by majority community in terms
of religion or race linguistic group, etc.

Q43. What is the relationship between democracy and economic


development? Explain

Solution

The relationship between democracy and economic development is


elaborated as follows:
(i) Democracy lags behind dictatorship when it comes to economic
development
(ii) Economic development in democracy widens the disparities
between the rich and poor, hence increasing economic inequalities.
(iii) However, the difference in the rates of economic development
between less developed countries with dictatorships and
democracies is negligible.

Q44. A situation that can possibly expose the illegitimacy of bad


democratic governments is elections. Do you agree with this
statement? Justify your answer.

Solution

Yes, elections can show the illegitimacy of the government.


- The government gains legitimacy because itis elected by the
people.
- Elections may not be free or fair.
- Elected representatives may rarely work for the people, so it
cannot be called a "people's government".
- Elected representatives may be corrupt and citizens may not be
standing in elections that often.
- People may not be able to choose the pool of candidates from
which the representative is elected, making the process illegitimate

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