THE NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY

BHOPAL

TRIMESTER III
POLITICAL SCIENCE
TOPIC - A STUDY ON DEMOCRACY OF/IN THE
CONTEMPORARY TIME

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
DR. RAKA ARYA PANKAJ SINGH
2019BALLB53
INTRODUCTION
We live in an increasingly democratic world. Between 1975 and 1995 the number of
democracies more than doubled; as a result, most people in the world now live under
tolerably democratic rule. In its current upsurge, democracy has expanded beyond its core of
West Europe and former colonies in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Democracy
now embraces South Europe (for example Spain), East Europe (for example Poland), Latin
America (for example Argentina), more of Asia (for example Taiwan) and parts of Africa
(for example South Africa). Democratization in the late twentieth century proved to be a
political earthquake, producing a massive, and possibly irreversible, shift in the world’s
political landscape. Fukuyama (1989), for one, argues that the great conflict of ideas which
dominated European and then world politics for 200 years after the French revolution has
ended. Democracy, and its ally the market economy, has triumphed. 

As democracy has spread, so it has become more varied in its operation. Understanding the
forms taken by democracy in today’s world is therefore a central task. In this chapter, we
examine the established democracies of Europe and its former colonies, with their emphasis
on representative and limited government. We then discuss the newer democracies created
from the ashes of communist and military rule, focusing on the problems of establishing new
political systems in difficult domestic conditions. Finally, we assess those awkward semi~
democratic regimes Russia is an example -that Straddle the border between democratic and
authoritarian government. But to begin we must explore the origins of democracy itself. And
that task must take us back to the fifth century BC to the world’s most influential example of
self-government:

REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Aristotle, The Politics, Book VI

Democracy and Governance by Rashmi sarma

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The giving and receiving of bribes, the threat or use of violence, treating and impersonation
are common ways that the electoral process can be corrupted, meaning that democracy is not
impenetrable from external problems and can be criticised for allowing it to take place.so we
analyse why these problem exist in a country in the democratic time .

OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

1.To study what is democracy and why the democracy important to any country.
2.Advantage of democracy
3.To study different types of democray
4.Disadvantage of democracy in any country.

HYPOTHESIS
Understanding the forms taken by democracy in today’s world is therefore a central task.
Hssence my project examine the established democracies of Europe and its former colonies,
with their emphasis on representative and limited government.

METHODOLOGY
This project is largely based on the doctrinal method of data collection.

CHAPTERISATION
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