The most challenging form of government in a country for both politicians and the people is ‘democracy’. The term democracy is defined as ‘the rule of the people’ where the concept of it is to work on the people to obey the rules that have been made by the people’s determined system of making rules. In today’s world, democracy is the only legal and practical system of government that is approved by most of the people in most countries. Rather than just a single unique set of government institutions, (Schmitter & Karl, 1991) democracy rests upon a well understood group of values, attitudes, practices and all, which may take different forms and expressions among different cultures and societies around the world with the values of tolerance,
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Through the elections, the decisions are made out of the majority rule, to be accepted by all, and minority viewpoints are still being respected and protected. Citizens formulating the demands, exerting on pressure and monitoring government’s actions continuously is the way for democracy to function more effectively and serve the interests of its citizens better. The two fundamental principles of democracy are the principle of ‘individual autonomy’ where no one should be subject to rules that have been imposed by others, and the principle of ‘equality’ where everyone should have the same opportunity to influence the decisions that affect people in …show more content…
At times, the media contributes to public disparagement and deterioration of democracy to a country. The media spreads disruptive news rather than consensus, suspicion instead of social trust, and hatred speeches rather than abstemious debates. This is why fourth power is being spoken as referring to the power of media in public opinion. Even though this characteristics may be true but in another way, the politicians are the ones that are retaining the political power where the financiers exercise on the economic power. Alongside all of this, there is no leading authority that is united but a system of local, nationwide, worldwide and global leaders in different scopes. Comprising the unstable network of unbalanced relations that has created the structure of the daily life of citizens, the system has their associations and struggles getting up from a beginning of public and different
Through the elections, the decisions are made out of the majority rule, to be accepted by all, and minority viewpoints are still being respected and protected. Citizens formulating the demands, exerting on pressure and monitoring government’s actions continuously is the way for democracy to function more effectively and serve the interests of its citizens better. The two fundamental principles of democracy are the principle of ‘individual autonomy’ where no one should be subject to rules that have been imposed by others, and the principle of ‘equality’ where everyone should have the same opportunity to influence the decisions that affect people in …show more content…
At times, the media contributes to public disparagement and deterioration of democracy to a country. The media spreads disruptive news rather than consensus, suspicion instead of social trust, and hatred speeches rather than abstemious debates. This is why fourth power is being spoken as referring to the power of media in public opinion. Even though this characteristics may be true but in another way, the politicians are the ones that are retaining the political power where the financiers exercise on the economic power. Alongside all of this, there is no leading authority that is united but a system of local, nationwide, worldwide and global leaders in different scopes. Comprising the unstable network of unbalanced relations that has created the structure of the daily life of citizens, the system has their associations and struggles getting up from a beginning of public and different