Outcomes of Democracy........Part II

Q5.How does democracy produce an accountable, responsive and legitimate government?
Democracy produces an accountable, responsive and legitimate government by: 
Accountable government

1. Ensuring that people  have the right to choose their rulers and people have control over the rulers.
2. Citizens should be able to participate in decision making that affects them all.
3. Citizens also have an effective right to evaluate the decision making process.

Responsible government

1. Democracy is also responsible towards the needs and aspirations of people as 
2. It promotes the public opinions, needs and expectations of the citizens.
3. Democracy is based on the idea of deliberation and negotiation before arriving at any conclusion in decision making.

Democracy produces legitimate government by

1. Regular, free and fair elections; 
2. Open public debate on major policies and legislation's.
3. Citizens’ right to information about the government and its functioning.

Q6.What are the conditions under which democracies accommodate social diversities?

Democracies accommodates social diversities: 

1. Democracies develop a procedure to conduct their competition. This reduces the possibility of these tensions becoming explosive or violent. 
2. No society can fully and permanently resolve conflicts among different groups but can certainly learn to respect these differences and can also evolve mechanisms to negotiate the differences.Democracy is best suited to produce this outcome.
3. The majority always needs to work with the minority so that governments function to represent the general view.Therefore  majority and minority opinions are not permanent.

Q7. How are the complaints treated as testimony to the success of democracy? Explain. 

1. The fact that people are complaining is itself a testimony to the success of democracy because:
2. It shows that people have developed awareness and the ability to expect and to look critically at power holders and the high and the mighty. 
3. A public expression of dissatisfaction with democracy shows the success of the democratic project.
4. It transforms people from the status of a subject into that of a citizen. 
5. Most individuals today believe that their vote makes a difference to the way the government is run and to their own self-interest.