9th Class Social Science What is Democracy? Why Democracy? Question Bank 9th CBSE Social Science What is Democracy? Why Democracy?

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    "Democracy is the most popular form of  government emerging in modern times. Still its shortcomings cannot be ruled out." Justify the statement by assessing any five shortcomings of democracy.

    Answer:

                    Shortcomings of democracy are (i) In the democratic form of government, leaders keep on  changing, which leads to instability. (ii) There is political competition and power play everywhere. This situation hardly follows any rules of morality. (iii) Elected leaders are unable to contact a large number of people and can hardly guess about the real problems of the people, which results in wrong decisions, delay of work, etc. (iv) A large number of people are illiterate. They do not know what is good for them. So they cannot decide anything properly. (v) Democracy leads to corruption for it is based on electoral competition. To win the election, the political parties adopt their own policies and try to win election by hook or by crook.


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