Misconceptions about Democracy

Democracy

A great deal of work in political theory examines the importance of cultural identity to democratic citizenship, in particular whether group-specific entitlements are justified on the grounds that cultural background is important to the meaningful exercise of personal freedoms. In the real democratic system, it is the people who have sovereign power over the legislature and government. State with a democratic form of government holds regular free and fair elections, the right of participation is provided to all citizens. Election of a democratic society cannot be merely a screen behind which lurk dictators or one single party, but ...