Democracy is a form of government in which people are governed by their own elected representatives. It is a government of the people for the people and by the people. In the system of government, it is the people who are supreme and sovereign. They control the government. They are free to elect a government of their om choice. Freedom of choice is the core of democracy.
Democracy in ancient Greek and Roman republics but with little success. It had very little scope in ancient India. Democracy entered itu golden stage in he twentieth century. Many countries in the world today follow the democratic form government. Democracy depends on the following condition (i) convience of ideas and of parties (ii) the right to free discussion;(iii) universal adult suffrage, and (iv) periodic election,
Indian se the largest democracy in the world. The Constitution of Indian was enforced on 26 January, 1950. It ushered in the age pf democracy. India became a democratic republic infused with the spirit of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. The Preamble, the Directive Principles of State Policy and the Fundamental Rights reflect the Indian ideology as well as the caste, creed, religion, property, or rex have the right to cant their vote. After and election, the majority party or coalition forms the government and its leader become the Prime Minister.
Political parties are the vehicles of ideas Parties act an the bridge between social thought and political decision in democracy. The Indian polities system is a multiparty system. However, gradually politics has become a game of opportunism and corruption. Moet political parties are only interested in coming to power. Every party adoptu different caste politics. Some try to influence the people thought caste politics. Some try to raise the religious sentiments of the people. The Indian ideology today is replaced by caste and religion.
INDIA IS attempting a transformation few nations in modern history have successfully managed: liberalizing the economy within an estab lished democratic order. It is hard to escape the impression that market interests and democratic principles are uneasily aligned in India today. The two are not inherently contradictory, but there are tensions between them that India's leaders will have to manage carefully.
Students of political economy know the market based- policies meant to increase the efficiency of the aggregate economy frequently generate short-term dislocations and resentment. In a democratic polity, this resentment often translates at the ballot box into a halt or a reversal of pro-market reforms. In the West, such tensions have remained moderate for at least three reasons: universal suffrage came to most Western democracies only after the Industrial Revolution, which meant that the poor got the right to vote only after those societies had become relatively rich; a welfare state has attended to the needs of low-income segments of the population; and the educated and the wealthy have tended to vote more than the poor.
Democracy, often described as the government "of the people, for the people and by the people”, is globally accepted as the best possible governance.
It is a social order aiming at the greatest good of the greatest number. The idea of governing a mass of people as per their collective will might sound perfect but it has its own pitfalls pointed out by many thinkers from Plato onwards .
Democracy has a great educative force, because it strives for the development of the personality of the citizens. So democracy is not only a form of government but a kind of upgraded society. These are the warp and woof of a culture which may be called democracy culture.
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