10th Class Social Science Outcomes of Democracy Question Bank Short Answer Type - Outcome of Democracy

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    How does democracy produce an accountable, responsive and legitimate government?

    Answer:

    One of the basic outcome of democracy is that is produces a government that is accountable, representative, responsible and legitimate to the needs and expectations of the citizens.
    (i) Democracy produces an Accountable and Representative Government: In a democracy people have the right to choose their rulers and people will have control over the rulers, i.e., the representative government.
    - Whenever possible and necessary, a citiy.cn should be able- to participate in decision making that affects all. Citizens have the right and the means to examine the process of decision making. This signifies that democracy produces an accountable government.
    (ii) Democracy produces Responsible and Legitimate Government: At the same time democracy is a responsible government and is responsible to the people of the country.
    - It promotes the formation of public opinion and cares about the opinions, needs and expectations of the citizens,
    (iii) Democracy ensures legitimate: Democracy is a legitimate government.
    - It is a government of the people. After every five years the representatives of the people are elected by secret ballot.
    - The majority party or groups of political parties form the government.
    - Thus, whenever possible and necessary, citizens should be able to participate in decision making on issues that affect them all.
     


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