GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Functioning of Indian Democracy Source: TH Context: The question of whether or not India’s democratic values have declined in recent years has been debated at the University of Cambridge. Data on democratic values in India: By the Sweden-based V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute – The deliberative democracy index: It …
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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors Source: The Hindu Context: India will soon celebrate its 75th anniversary. The article evaluates how successful Indian democracy has been till now. Direction: Just go through the article. No need to make notes. How India should be judged on its 75th anniversary? …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International Institutions. Context: The latest edition of Democracy Report was released recently by the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg. The study was titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’ About the report: The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in …
Introduction: Ancient India had democratic republic even before 6th century BCE and India has seen democratic rule through ages. Vaishali (in present day Bihar) is considered one of the first republics around 6th century BCE. Republics at that time were called ‘Mahajanpadas’ and Sabhas and Samitis (assemblies) existed. Panchayat systems were also used in …
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Introduction: The ‘democracy’ that a major part of our world swears by comprises free and fair, multi-party, fixed-term elections based on universal adult franchise in its ideal state. A contestant party winning the majority of votes represents the will of the electorate and gets to form the government; others sit in the opposition until the …
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Saurabh Goyal A Democracy thrives on the integrity, competency and neutrality of its public institutions. Election commission (EC) is arguably single most important institution in a democracy. It is so critical for a democracy that quality of this institution is a baseline to evaluate the overall veracity of representative institutions.EC is constitutionally entrusted to work …
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QUESTIONS: DAY – 75 [Topics: the development industry; Parliament –functioning; challenges of corruption(Paper-V)] What are the preconditions for the growth of Civil Society? Is Indian democracy conducive to it? (250 Words) Identify the major obstacles in the smooth functioning of Parliamentary democracy in India.(250 Words) Suggest concrete measures for the eradication of wide spread corruption in public …
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Democracy is championed as a universal good by the West, but we over-estimate its power to guarantee personal and political freedom, argues Roger Scruton. For some time, the leading Western nations have acted upon the assumption that democracy is the solution to political conflict, and that the ultimate goal of foreign policy must be to …
The victim of democracy is the politics itself. As they say familiarity breeds contempt, politics in a democratic set up tends to be looked upon with contempt by the people. If, in India, people are asked to vote for an institution that has maintained some level of integrity – they would vote for the Supreme …
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Higher education in India needs urgent attention and massive reforms if India wants to become a Global leader tomorrow. National Knowledge Commission’s report must be implemented as soon as possible.
