REFORMATION OF DEMOCRACY.

Democracy has been one of the greatest step and achievement since the start of civilization. When compared this generation to the older once, the majority of the country's practise democracy than ever. There has never been a majority of government practising democracy until this generation and the there has never been numerouse wars everywhere around the world in the history unless this generation. For this, i can blame the whole situation on the modern democracy.

It is simply taken for granted, even among most self-described conservatives (and certainly among most libertarians) that the historic nineteenth- and twentieth-century shift away from monarchy and toward ever-greater democratization constituted a welcome step forward for civilization.

Since those who rule in a democracy are not the owners of the state apparatus but rather are merely temporary caretakers, they have little incentive to be farsighted, to preserve the country’s capital value and to think of its future welfare. To the contrary, their limited time horizon necessarily translates into a tendency toward immediate gratification. But since, on the other hand, a monarch can realize the benefits of preserving the country’s capital value, he is less likely to squander his resources in order to realize some ill-considered short-term gain

During the 1970s and increasingly in the 1980s and 90s, those who had been deprived of any say in the direction of their own societies and indeed of their personal lives demanded to be heard. They had many complaints – poverty, devastation of the environment, lack of basic freedoms, corruption of every sort. It was remarkable, however, that they saw lack of democracy, the absence of honest, effective elections, as basic to their predicament, and the introduction of free elections and free expression as an essential part of any solution.

The events of the last few years do not permit easy optimism that the world is moving in a freer direction – war, terrorism, government repression and crushing poverty still victimize millions. It is important to remember, however, that in the last third of the 20th century, democracy was restored or introduced into many countries that had been written off as not ready – and maybe never ready – for democracy. And although in some of these places democratic regimes have failed or are in perilous condition, in others – for instance, South Korea, Taiwan, Poland, and Portugal – democracy seems as healthy as it is anywhere in the world.

Before the late 1980s it was commonly believed, by historians and non-historians alike, that the failure of democracy to take firm root outside of Western Europe and former British colonies in North America and Australasia indicated that democracy was culturally foreign to most inhabitants of the globe. Anglo-European democracy was seen as rooted in the development of certain specific ideas and values over the very long term: the classical heritage, Christian respect for the worth of the individual believer, a tradition of “feudal” or limited monarchy, bourgeois commercial culture, etc. The road to modern democracy was marked by unique milestones that “Westerners” had passed in good time, but that everyone else had missed: the Protestant Reformation, England’s Glorious Revolution, the Enlightenment, the American and French Revolutions, etc.(2) The necessity of passing through these stages in a timely fashion seemed to be proved by the subsequent failure of many countries – notably in Latin America and Africa but also in southern Europe – to establish stable democratic regimes in the 20th century.

The history of democracy is hardly over. Indeed in the last decade the course of democratic change has become more complex. Regimes that once looked to be on the road to democracy have ceased to evolved; there are now many hard-to-classify hybrid regimes, not openly anti-democratic but allowing only as much opposition as is convenient to the local power holders.(10) Further, there is the widespread concern that supranational institutions are not sufficiently responsive to the people in many countries who are affected by their actions. Such phenomena as these are quite rightly mainly the concern of those with practical needs to understand current politics – foreign policy experts, political scientists, and especially democracy activists. Those fields privilege the possibilities of the present moment. But surely historians with their different perspectives can and should contribute to the understanding of current issues.

I think its time to change the direction of democracy under the rule of united nations. As it has been tradition in many domocratical countries that elections are held every 4yrs and if the people are satified with the rulling democratical government they can still give it (the rulling government) another mandate to rule for another 4yrs, this has been one of the problem depriving people everywhere of their basic human right and the right to live and decide for themselves. Its unofortunate only few countries like Turkey, Thailand and other countries have their military being independent from the rulling government, otherwise, the rulling government tend to use the arms of the military to threaten any means so they can use any political forces to still rule the regime through election riging. This is really the problem facing Africa today. Example in Africa is President Mugabe, former President Obasanjo who intentionally rigged the election for a member of his party and in South America, Chavez and Castro.

What I think should be done is, when the people give another mandate to the rulling party to carry on with it reformations, at the end of 8yrs of every parties rulling, that party shouldn't be allow to stand for another more year. With this, after a party serve for 8yrs, it doesn't have right under the constitution to run again until the next 2 more presidential elections. This can really reduce election riging by the rulling government so the opposition parties can also demonstrate their reformations. Because most of the times when a particular president ends his 8yrs of rule and hand over to another memeber of party, since the handing over president is in the same political party with the person, they intentionally rig the election so a member of their party will still rule the country. This is one issue the united nations should tackle I think.

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By Muntaka.