Democracies often frustrate the needs of the people. Justify the statement with examples.

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Democracies often frustrate the needs of the people. Justify the statement with examples.

Asked by Jerlin George | 05 Mar, 2016, 01:07: PM

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Democracies often frustrate the needs of the people because of the following reasons:

It leads to delay in decision making process. For example, in reduction of age from 18 to 16 for juveniles. The government before amending the law needs to look after its pros and cons from each angle, because it might affect a larger section of people. Also, it might prove to jeopardize the fate of innocents wrongly convicted or even undertrials.
It sometimes goes against people's opinions. For instance, in the case of Patidar community agition for reservation in Gujarat. The government needs to think before agreeing to such kind of opinions of the people, because it needs to look at the greater good, even if it means going against the people's opinion. It also needs to look after the opinion of the other people of the nation before making taking such steps.
For demcoratic forms of government, poverty eradication is a long term process, there are not quick fixes in democracy. For example, we can cite the case of the state of Bihar. The JD(U) government led by Nitish Kumar has been in power in Bihar for two consecutive terms and has initiated some profound poverty eradication state projects. However, there is such drastic lack of basic infrastructure in Bihar that it is going to take a long time for the benevolent effects of these programmes to percolate to the grassroot level.

Answered by Akanksha Kaul | 07 Mar, 2016, 04:54: PM