This document discusses key aspects of democracy including:
1) It identifies several learning competencies related to democratic practices, participation, and differentiating between participatory and representative democracy.
2) It outlines some of the benefits of democracy including greater peace, prosperity, and pluralism.
3) It discusses several key elements and characteristics of democracy according to scholars including free and fair elections, participation, protection of rights, rule of law, upward control, and political equality.
4) It explores dimensions of democracy including the body politic, inclusiveness, and sovereignty of the people.
This document discusses key aspects of democracy including:
1) It identifies several learning competencies related to democratic practices, participation, and differentiating between participatory and representative democracy.
2) It outlines some of the benefits of democracy including greater peace, prosperity, and pluralism.
3) It discusses several key elements and characteristics of democracy according to scholars including free and fair elections, participation, protection of rights, rule of law, upward control, and political equality.
4) It explores dimensions of democracy including the body politic, inclusiveness, and sovereignty of the people.
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This document discusses key aspects of democracy including:
1) It identifies several learning competencies related to democratic practices, participation, and differentiating between participatory and representative democracy.
2) It outlines some of the benefits of democracy including greater peace, prosperity, and pluralism.
3) It discusses several key elements and characteristics of democracy according to scholars including free and fair elections, participation, protection of rights, rule of law, upward control, and political equality.
4) It explores dimensions of democracy including the body politic, inclusiveness, and sovereignty of the people.
This document discusses key aspects of democracy including:
1) It identifies several learning competencies related to democratic practices, participation, and differentiating between participatory and representative democracy.
2) It outlines some of the benefits of democracy including greater peace, prosperity, and pluralism.
3) It discusses several key elements and characteristics of democracy according to scholars including free and fair elections, participation, protection of rights, rule of law, upward control, and political equality.
4) It explores dimensions of democracy including the body politic, inclusiveness, and sovereignty of the people.
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DEMOCRATIC
INTERVENTIONS TRENDS, NETWORKS, & CRITICAL THINKING IN THE 21ST CENTURY CULTURE MR. JOHN LEWIS SUGUITAN, LPT LEARNING COMPETENCIES At the end of the lesson, you should have learned to:
Identify preferred democratic practices;
Explain and analyze the reason for their preferences; Illustrate the benefits of democratic participation; Explain the importance of participation in democracy; Differentiate participatory democracy from representative democracy; Generate the criteria to access prevailing political and social institutions; and Conceptualize what can be a viable alternative to undemocratic practices. STAKES IN DEMOCRACY
Democracy is often dismissed as mere lip service to build support for
strategic policies. Yet there are tangible stakes for the world in the spread of democracy – namely, GREATER PEACE, PROSPERITY, AND PLURALISM.
Democracy affords all groups equal access to justice – and equal
opportunity to shine as assets in a country’s economy. Democracy’s support for pluralism prevents human assets – including religious and ethnic minorities, women, and migrants – from being squandered. Pluralism is also precisely what is needed to stop violent extremism from wreaking havoc on the world. MEANING OF DEMOCRACY
Democracy, or democratic government, is ”a system of government in
which all the people of a state or polity . . . are involved in making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives to a parliament or similar assembly,” (Oxford English Dictionary)
Democracy is further defined as:
a) “government by the people; especially: rule of the majority" b) “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. FOUR KEY ELEMENTS by Larry Diamond A) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; B) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; C) Protection of the human rights of all citizens; and D) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizen. CHARACTERISTICS OF DEMOCRACY
1) Upward control, i.e. sovereignty residing at the lowest levels of
authority, 2) Political equality 3) Social norms by which individuals and institutions only consider acceptable acts that reflect the first two principles of upward control and political equality. DIMENSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
A) THE RULE OF PEOPLE - THE BODY POLITIC. Democracy is form of
government based on the rule of the people. The body politic is the public, the community, that sees itself as such.
Cicero, for example, begins his discussion of the forms of government
by pointing out that a Republic is the property of a public, not just any congregation of people, but a group naturally brought together and forming a community by legal consent and community interest. THREE CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE IN DEMOCRACY 1) People. All individual people subject to the legal authority of the state, the ruled. 2) Citizen. All individuals making up the body politic. 3) Participants. All individual who participate in the governance of the state, the rulers. DIMENSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
B) INCLUSIVENESS OF A POLITICAL SOCIETY. This is a dimension. People
are people, and a society is more democratic when it includes more of the ruled in the body politic.
c) SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE. Democracy relates to a republican
freedom, not liberal freedom. Liberal freedom pertains to rights of individuals inviolable by the sovereign. DIMENSIONS OF SOVERIENGTY
A) THEORETICAL. It means the grounding of sovereignty resides in the
people. B) AS STRUCTURE C) AS A PRACTICE BENEFITS OF DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION 1. INCREASED TAX REVENUE/ REDUCTION OF TAX DELIQUENCY 2. INCREASED EFFICIENCY/ BETTER ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES 3. INCREASED TRUST AND IMPROVED IMPLEMENTATION PROCESSES REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY VS PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. Certain people are established as eligible voters based on their age or other qualifications.
PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY. Also called a direct democracy, every
citizen plays an active role in the government . VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO UNDEMOCRATIC PRACTICES For citizens in democratic societies to play a participatory societies to play a participatory and active role and transfer and share power from elites to and with local bodies; For those who develop powerful tools to be responsible for their consequences; To consider voices of diverse and different groups in multicultural societies; and To protect the rights of citizen from powerful institutions. ILL- EFFECTS OF UNDEMOCRATIC PRACTICES ON GENDER BIASES 1) UNEQUAL PAY 10) SEXUAL HARASSMENT 2) INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 11) LOSS OF PRODUCTIVITY 3) DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITIES 12) UNFAIR PROMOTIONS 4) RESTROOMS 5) CONVERSATIONS 6) GLASS CEILINGS 7) POSITIONAL BIAS 8) TERMINATIONS 9) OUTDATED VIEWS RESULTS OF UNDEMOCRATIC PRACTICES POVERTY POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION RACIAL INEQUALITY CULTURAL DOMINATION