Democracy

Most of the world's democracies are in the Eastern Hemisphere, such as the majority of European nations, several African and Middle Eastern nations, India, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mongolia.

It depends on how the word "largest" is read.

If it refers to population, India is the most populous democracy with over 800 million individuals of voting age. In the recent election which made Narendra Modi the Prime Minister of India, over 300 million Indians turned out to vote.

If it refers to land-area, Canada is the largest democracy by territory. Only Russia, which is an illiberal democracy is a larger country.

Democracy is a political government either carried out directly by the people or by means of elected representatives of the people. "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time". Winston Churchill.

by fulfilling their civic responsibilities like voting and paying taxes

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After the expulsion of the tyrants in 510 BCE, there was a tussle between the aristocratic party which dominated through the Council on the Areopagus, and a populist movement led by Cleisthenes, which the later won, giving political control to an assembly of all landowning citizens.

This lasted for a couple of decades, until the Persian invasion 480-479 BCE when the aristocrats led the resistance and held onto dominance in the ongoing warfare after the invasion was repelled. In 460 BCE Ephialtes led another democratic coup and eliminated the Council's power. The aristocracy assassinated Ephialtes for this, but his sidekick Pericles took over ad embedded the democracy.

In a direct democracy power is retained by all voting members of the population. However, since it is practically untenable to have a government made up entirely of lay citizens, those areas under direct democracy, like several Swiss cantons, still have representatives who formulate the proposals to be voted on in referendums and manage negotiations with other governments.

On paper, Mexico is a democracy with a "federal representative republic" as form of government. In practice however, there is a high degree of corruption among public officials which translates into undemocratic practices such as nepotism, buying and selling of votes and "acarreados", who are people that show at public demonstrations in exchange of money or other kind of support, such as food and household items.

Democracy means "rule by the people". Republic means "rule by elected officials". Since the officials in a republic are elected, it is a form of democracy.

Not all democracies are republics (direct democracy is not), and not all "republics" are actually democracies ("Islamic republics", for example).

The United States is a republic and representational democracy.

The US has a representative democracy because, at the time the Constitution was framed, it was impracticable to have a direct democracy. Additionally, the Founding Fathers were generally skeptical of democracies (since they understood it differently than we did) and feared the tyranny of the majority. They believed a representative democracy would temper the passions of the masses.

In order for a democracy to work, it is important that the people have knowledge about the definition of democracy and how it works. Thus, it is highly important for a country to have an educated population in order for the democratic system to work. This is important because uneducated people tend to lean towards radical ideologies as these ideologies might seem to have a sufficient solution to the problems of the society, however what people usually fail to see or even ignore is that these solution are based on suppression of other groups in society which usually doesn't affect the majority.

Another important point in educating the people about the definition of democracy is that they usually tend to understand the word wrong. An example of that is that many people tend to regard democracy as a system where everything literally is allowed, this often lead to a complete chaos that devastates the order of the society rather than improving it and in that way, it leads to the opposite effect of the aims of democracy.

The Role of the People

The key role of citizens in a democracy is to participate in public life.

Citizens have an obligation to become informed about public issues, to watch carefully how their political leaders and representatives use their powers, and to express their own opinions and interests.

Voting in elections is another important civic duty of all citizens.

But to vote wisely, each citizen should listen to the views of the different parties and candidates, and then make his or her own decision on whom to support.

Participation can also involve campaigning for a political party or candidate, standing as a candidate for political office, debating public issues, attending community meetings, civic meetings, petitioning the government, and even protesting.

A vital form of participation comes through active membership in independent, non-governmental organizations, what we call "civil society."

These organizations represent a variety of interests and beliefs: farmers, workers, doctors, teachers, business owners, religious believers, women, students, human rights activists.

"DEMOCRACY: Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system."

Democracy does not mean that the majority rules, it more often means that the political group wit the most votes wins, which means that out of a choise of five candidates 21% pecent of the vote can secure contol.

It is important because it gives us(the public) choice. Hope this helped >.< M-day, out. Peace.

They stood strongly together and focused on other democracys that have failed and also concentrated on their weaknesses pointing them out to the disbeleivers and trying to change those mistakes so the United States didn't fail.

Benjamen Franklin used his printing press and his developed writing skills to express and promote his ideas. He also belonged to the Junto - a group of friends who met, debated, discussed, and traded information.

The first line of attack to improve a government policy should be peaceful protests. There are several reasons for this: (1) Your case becomes more sympathetic since you appear more restrained than the government that is repressing your rights. (2) It prevents a reactionary response that a militant form of dissent immediately creates. (3) It shows that you are open to constructive or compromise solutions as opposed to simply "my way or the highway". (4) Further, and specifically in a democracy, the right of peaceful protest is protected.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago.

Lack of good governance, lack of democratic culture etc...

C. Citizens are expected to actively participate in the political process. (Apex)

It depends where they live. In the US and much of the world, they can vote, petition to have laws changed, run for office, audit their government's budget, watch the activities of their government ("Watchdogs"), and protest. If you live in a free country, get involved! See an unfair law? Get it changed through the judicial (a lawsuit for violation of constitutional rights) or get it on the next ballot through a petition. If you live in the US, go to your state's official website to find out how to proceed.

Athenian democracy was all adult male citizens meeting in assembly each fortnight and discussed and voted on the running of the state.

It is not important today other than as interesting history, as democracies today are representative democracies - that is citizens elect representatives to he assembly, who vote on decisions. This present system gives power to the representative politicians who often have different views and are held accountable at elections after several years.

The Athenian direct democracy model sounds attractive but most countries are too large for people to assemble regularly, so we have to have representatives to do this for us. The question is 'would you trust a politician?'

1. Fundamental worth

2. Equality of all persons

3. Majority rule minority rights

4. Necessity of compromise

5. Individual freedom.

In a direct democracy, anyone can participate in the government. But in a representative democracy, you must be elected.

The Revolution against the monarchy occurred in 1954 and succeeded in the same year, bringing the Nasserists to power. They began the process of elections and claimed that Egypt was a democracy, but is important to note that Egypt was typically termed an Illiberal Democracy during this period. While there would be democratic elections often times the results are nullified by the state there would be only one candidate.

Since the Arab Spring Revolution in Egypt, in 2011-2012, Egypt has become more democratic, but SCAF (the Egyptian Army), still holds a lot of power, making the current Egyptian State a hybrid between a democracy and military junta to be resolved with the writing of a new constitution.