What are the drawbacks or dangers of democracy?

1. Democracy is the rule of majority;

2. Majority of the voters in poor countries are poor;

3. The poor have a short-term horizon meaning given a choice between today's benefit for more benefit in the future they will choose the former. This is borne by their incessant need for survival to find food, clothing, and shelter. Put simply, given a choice between money now and good road in the future they will chose the money. Anyway, they don't have cars to drive in those nice road;

4. It follows that given a choice between a money from a bad candidates and promises from a good candidates they will choose the money; and

5. In conclusion, since in a democracy majority wins, and majority of poor voters are poor, and the poor can be bought it necessarily follows that democracy can be bought and the winner in any election will be the person that has the most money to buy votes. The empirical evidences for this argument are everywhere in Africa and most Third World Countries.

24. Which model of democracy is most attractive, and why? Models of Democracy

From the first introduction of the new information and communication technologies, marked by the design and diffusion of interactive and integrative (multi)media, these technologies appeared to be connected to conceptions of democracy. The new facilities of telepolling, telereferenda and electronic elections immediately spurred visions of the rebirth of the Athenian agora and other means of direct democracy and self-representation (Toffler 1980; Becker 1981) In these decades two things appeared. First, the conceptions of democracy are much more complicated than a simple dualism between direct and representative democracy.Second, discussions have become less theoretical; the media of ICT are maturing and entering into the daily practice of the political system. One can observe stages of experimentation and beyond. So we will have to do two things: elaborate the conceptions of democracy connected to the practice of ICT and describe this practice with regard to its introduction in the political system. Both can only be done here in the typifying and summarising way imposed by the narrow limits of an article. Still we hope to show in a plausible way that some typical views of democracy are connected to particular practices of ICT in politics. This goes as far as the suggestion of a relationship of these views with concrete instruments of ICT in the political system like computerised citizen enquiries, opinion polls, referenda, public information systems, government information and registration systems, electronic town halls.

Дата добавления: 2015-11-13