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How can we measure democracy on the basis of its expected outcome?

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In order to measure a democracy on the basis of its expected outcome we have to observe the following practices and institutions like:

(i) Regular free and fair elections.

(ii) Open public debate on major policies and legislation.

(iii) Citizens right to information about the government and its functioning.

(iv) The actual performance of democracies has had greater success in setting up regular and free elections in setting up conditions for open public debate.

(v) But most democracies fall short of elections that provide a fair chance to everyone and in subjecting every decision to public debate.

(Any three)