Kashfar: Failure Of Democracy

The citizens of Kashfar have lived under numerous military dictatorships in their recent history. Although recent attempts have been made at instituting democracy, all have failed and the nation remains under military rule. This failure could have stemmed from multiple areas, a misdiagnosis of what ails Kashfar, misaligned institutions, premature release from constitutional medicine, and the advertisement of western ideals and political structures upon the states. Any combination of these aspects has proven to be devastating to an ailing state such as Kashfar. Through regression analysis, we have determined that government effectiveness, government scope, and prosperity are significant to the citizens of Kashfar, and a semi-presidential system …show more content…
Rather than having single member districts with a plurality rule, there would be multimember districts with proportional voting. Each district would be allotted a certain number of representatives, and the number of representatives that each party would receive is based on the percentage of the vote that the party received. Together, these two aspects would work on alleviate the religious tensions that have been growing over the years. When the citizens of Kashfar have elections and parties that they genuinely believe will benefit and represent them, they will be more likely to vote genuinely. Also, the proportional representation system encourages coalition building and cooperating between parties. Further, the elections will be staggered, with half of the seats in a district being open for election every two years, thus making those seeking election or reelection more apt to consider the needs of the people. Concerning judiciary, there would be a fully independent court system, where judges could be nominated by either the president or prime minister, but they would have to be confirmed by the parliament. Also, these judges would serve life terms, thus removing them from political influence. Finally, the judges would have the power to deem any act by the executive or legislative acts …show more content…
When broken down by the characteristics that may have an impact on the citizens of Kashfar, each of the nine characteristics had an average score of six or seven. However, not all of the characteristics are of equal importance to the citizens. As shown through our regression, the people of this state are primarily concerned with prosperity in addition to state strength and scope. So, of the freedom house subcategories, legitimacy of the state, uneven development, and poverty are three categories that are of particular importance. Our institutions are designed to have lower than average values in these categories, putting them at roughly a five. Furthermore, the subcategories group grievance and human flight are connected to the issue of prosperity, but less so than the previously mentioned subcategories, thus giving these categories scores of six. For the other four categories, scores of seven would sufficiently reach the goals set forth by our governing institutions. Combined, this would give Kashfar an adjusted freedom house score of fifty-five, which would place this state well within the range of average scores for states similar to