Outcomes of Democracy

OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL, AL WARQA’A
OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRACY
2024-2025
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Q1) What is the basic outcome of Democracy?
A. The most basic outcome of democracy is that it produces a

government that is accountable to the citizens and
responsive to the needs and expectations of the citizens.
Q2) Give reasons for how is Democracy better than Dictatorship
• Democracy promotes equality among citizens.

• Improves the quality of decision making.
• Enhances the dignity.
• Room to convert mistakes.
• Provides methods to resolve mistakes.
Q3) What are the prudential reasons to support Democracy?
• Over a hundred countries of the world today, claim and

practice some kind of democratic politics.
• They have formal constitutions; they hold elections, have
parties and guarantee rights of citizens.
• While these features are common to most of them, these
democracies are very much different from each other in
terms of their social situations, their economic
achievements and their cultures.
Q4) Explain any three outcomes on which democracy has failed?
a) Corruption- Records show that most of the democratic

countries have failed to reduce or remove corruption.
b) Non- Attentive to the needs of the people- Democracies
often frustrate the needs and demands of the people and
often ignores the demands of a majority of its population.
c) Reduction of equality and poverty- Democracy removes
economic disparities. Most of the democracy has failed in
this issue.
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Q5) How does a democracy produce an accountable, responsive
and legitimate government?
a) Accountable Government. A democracy makes it sure that

people will have the right to choose their rulers.
Whenever possible, citizens should participate in the
decision- making process. This is known as
Transperancy.Therefore, the most basic outcome of
democracy’s that it produce a government that is
accountable to citizen and responsive to the needs and
expectations of the citizens.
b) Responsive Government. People wish to be ruled by
representatives elected by them. They also believe that
democracy will listen to their problems. Democracy’s
ability to generate its own support is itself an outcome
that cannot be ignored.
c) Legitimate Government There is one respect in which
democratic government is certainly better than its
alternative. Democratic government is a legitimate
government. It may be slow, less efficient but it is
people’s own legitimate government.
Q6) What does Economic development depends upon?
• Country’s population and size.

• Global situation
• Co-operation from other countries
• Economic priorities.
Q7) How does democracy promote dignity and freedom of an

individual?
• Every individual wants to receive respect from fellow

beings.
• Often conflicts arise among individual because some feel
that they are not related with due respect. The passion
for respect and freedom are the basis of democracy.
• For societies which have been built for long on the basis
of subordination and domination, it is not a simple
matter to recognize that all individuals are equal.
• A public expression of dissatisfaction with democracy
shows the success of the democratic project: it
transforms people from the status of a subject that of a
citizen. Public shows that people are aware and have the
ability to look critically at the power holders.
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Q8) What are the conditions under which democracies
accommodate social diversities?
• Democracy does not mean rule by majority. Majority needs

to work with minority so that government functions
represent the general view.
• Rule of majority in terms of caste, religion, etc should
not be one sided. Democracy remains a democracy as long
as every citizen gets a chance of being in majority at
some point of time. If some one is barred from majority
on the basis of birth, then democracy ceases to be
accommodative for that person or group.
Q9) Is democracy attentive to the needs of the people and free

from corruption?
• Democracies often frustrate the needs of people and often

ignore the demands of the majority of its population.
• The routine tale of corruption is enough to convince us
that democracy is not free of this evil.
• At the same time, there is nothing to show that non-
democracies are less corrupt or more sensitive to the
people.
Q10) How do you measure democracies on the basis of expected

outcome? (Why are democratic regimes better than non-
democracy?)
• Regular, free and fair elections.

• Open public debate on major policies and legislations.
• Citizens right to information about government and its
function.
Q11) Do democracies lead to peaceful and harmonious lives

among citizens?
• Democracies must fulfill two conditions in order to

achieve this outcome.
• It is necessary to understand that democracy is not
simply rule by majority opinion. The majority always
needs to work with the minority so that governments
function to represent the general view.
• It is also necessary that rule by majority does not
become rule by majority community in terms of religion,
or race or linguistic groups. Rule by majority means that
in case of every election, different persons or groups
may and can form a majority.
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• Democracy remains a democracy only as long as every
citizen has a chance of being in majority, at some point
of time.
Q12) What are the prudential reasons to support democracy?
• Over a hundred countries of the world today claim and

practice some kind of democratic politics.
• They have formal constitution, they hold elections they
have parties and they guarantee rights to citizens.
• While these features are common to most of them. These,
democracies are very much different from each other in
terms of their social situations, their economic
achievements and their cultures.
Mr G. GOMES
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OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL, AL WARQA’A

Q1) What is the basic outcome of Democracy?

A. The most basic outcome of democracy is that it produces a

Q2) Give reasons for how is Democracy better than Dictatorship

• Democracy promotes equality among citizens.

Q3) What are the prudential reasons to support Democracy?

• Over a hundred countries of the world today, claim and

Q4) Explain any three outcomes on which democracy has failed?

a) Corruption- Records show that most of the democratic

a) Accountable Government. A democracy makes it sure that

Q6) What does Economic development depends upon?

• Country’s population and size.

Q7) How does democracy promote dignity and freedom of an

• Every individual wants to receive respect from fellow

• Democracy does not mean rule by majority. Majority needs

Q9) Is democracy attentive to the needs of the people and free

• Democracies often frustrate the needs of people and often

Q10) How do you measure democracies on the basis of expected

• Regular, free and fair elections.

Q11) Do democracies lead to peaceful and harmonious lives

• Democracies must fulfill two conditions in order to

Q12) What are the prudential reasons to support democracy?

• Over a hundred countries of the world today claim and

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