Democracy, as Abraham Lincoln defined it, “government of the people, for the people and by the people”. . . Democracy is a work-in-progress, not carved in stone to be worshiped. Each country and community have to find its own form of democracy to arrive at what is best for the community as a whole. To survive, it has to meet the Darwinian test of evolutionary competition from many different modes of governance. Darwin never said the survival is of the best, only the fittest.
As Abraham Lincoln defined it, “government of the people, for the people and by the people”. But during his time, women and slaves were not entitled to vote or participate in their governance. The crux of the democratic ideal lies in the question – “who rules?” This is not to say that the idea of democracy does not appeal to peoples of different cultures and political background.
What was remarkable was that 44% of those polled thought that the US threatens democracy in their country, as against Chinese influence or Russia . The biggest threat to democracy is seen as inequality and big tech companies . Is this democratic backsliding real or scientifically proven? Political scientists Waldner and Lust argue that the health of global democracy can no longer be adequately measured by simply counting democracies and autocracies. There are a group of countries they call WINDS or weakly institutionalized new democracies that easily backslide to military coups or autocratic politics due to poor institutions that cannot deliver. The poorer the country, the more vulnerable to political change.
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