Democracy and Public Opinion

democracy in politicsSince democracy has been defined as, “the Government of the people, by the people and for the people,” the crucial role of public opinion cannot be underestimated. It is the public which gives its views about a government by exercising its franchise in the ballot box.

In theory yes, a democracy is a form of Government in which the people have a say in the day-to-day functioning of the Government through the representatives it sends to the Parliament. The very existence of such a Government is well-dependent on the people. So much so good, but, for the people to have some views on subjects of national importance, it is imperative that the public be of some standard of intelligence and knowledge.

Public opinion plays a decisive role in making or breaking a government but the public whose Read the rest of this entry »

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What is Democracy Now?

democracy in politicsI thought that Democracy was ‘By the people, for the people, to the people’…all these years. In 2007, led by the Phillipine Prime Minister, The United Nation Representatives, made mostly of Developing countries came up with this.

‘Democracies share common features. There is no single mode of democracy. Democracy does not belong to any country. (so far good). Is a universal value based on the freely expressed will of the Read the rest of this entry »

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Serious Defects in Modern Democracy 4 – Deep Democracy

democracy in politicsWhat do we mean by the term Deep Democracy?

Deep Democracy developed as a political principle, in the 1980s, having first demonstrated its use in integrative psychotherapy. Unlike Classical representational and Direct Democracy, which focuses on majority rule, Deep Democracy suggests that all voices, states of awareness, and frameworks of reality are important, and are all needed to understand a more complete process of the political system.

In order to understand the complete process we pose the question, does democratic governance have to be global to be effective? Deep Democracy suggests this is the case in a number of ways. First, attitudes focus on the awareness of voices both central and bedazzling in a way that all voices and views are given the same degree of importance. Secondly, these principles are to be used on all organisations, groups as well as personal inner experience; people in conflict etc. Thirdly, humanity needs to experience Deep Democracy as a bedazzling process of flow, in which all actors on the stage are needed to create the play being observed. Democracy needs to be a dynamical system that Read the rest of this entry »

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