CORRUPTION
THE MALAISE OF DEMOCRACY
Keywords:
Corruption, Democracy, India, Religion, Justice, Freedom, RightsAbstract
The twentieth century has been referred to as “democracy’s century”. In the year 1900 there was no government in the world that had been elected by competitive multi-party suffrage. However, a century later, that is, by the year 2000, 120 of the 192 existing countries representing 62.5% of the world’s population were electoral democracies. Democracy is a concept of political organisation consisting of basic features that most people can agree upon and that have been applied in practise for almost 2500 years. In simple terms, democracy is a procedure for taking decisions in any group, association or society, whereby all members have an equal right to have a say and to make their opinion count.
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