REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Representative democracy

Representative democracy

Introduction

Democracy can be defined as the form of Government in which everyone has equal rights. People have equal rights for the decisions which may affect their life. Democracy is measured on the basis of fairness and transparency of the procedures which affect the decisions of government officials. The idea that democracy can be beneficial for development based on three arguments is not exhaustive. Democracies are better able to manage conflict than authoritarian regimes. Empirical studies thus demonstrate that social unrest and political changes in the ruling majority are more common in democracies than in dictatorships, but they do not disturb the development. From 1950 to 1990, the democracies have had twice as many riots and manifestations, events, three more strikes. However, these events and changes have slowed economic growth, while in the case of dictatorships (Rowbotham, 2006, p. 78).

Benefits of democracy

Democracy can be expressed as "The freedoms are the rights to free expression, to organize or demonstrate, and the rights to a certain degree of autonomy such as freedom of religion, education, (travel and other personal rights (Diamond, 1992). Although there is a positive relationship, between democracy and prosperity it is clear that there are no models convincing this theory. The development of such a theory remains a priority. The nations, which have been able to achieve a sound economic development and lead the global economy today, have been able to thanks to political organization based on democratic participation. In society, it has expected that popular will and interests are reflected in the draft government, which has been designed to meet the demands of the society, encouraging, while economic growth, a more or less equal income and wealth.

Second, democracies are better able to prevent and manage disasters. As stated by Sartori (2001), the existence of democratic institutions and processes strongly encourages governments to prevent famines. In the absence of opposition parties, a public non-critical censorship and the threat of being fired, leaders can act with impunity (p. 437). When the press is not free, the sufferings inflicted by famine in rural areas could go unnoticed among policy makers from the public. Third, democracies help spread knowledge on key aspects of such as the disastrous consequences of a high number of births for non women, the benefits of breastfeeding, the risks involved in unprotected sex protected (HIV / Aids). In these areas, open dialogue and public debate can disseminate information and influence behavior.

The basic idea can be summarized as follows: improving conditions living conditions of populations expected to go through the economic growth should of democratization of political regimes, which would in turn from a threshold to be determined, a development accelerator. These articles also provide the relationship between democracy and economic development such as 50 years ago, the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset pointed out that rich countries are much more likely than poor countries to be democracies.

The work of Dollar (2003) illustrates very well the concern of modeler's democracy as a predictor of ...