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OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRACY

Class X

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ACROSS 4. Over a hundred countries of the world today claim and practice some kind of _____________________: they have formal constitutions, they hold elections, they have parties and they guarantee rights of citizens. 8. Is based on the idea of deliberation and negotiation. So some delay in decision making and implementation is bound to take place. 10. Democratic government is a _____________. It may be slow, less efficient, not always very responsive or clean. But a democratic government is people's own government. 12. In a democracy, a citizen who wants to know if a decision was taken through the correct procedures can find this out. This is known as 13. Because democracy follows procedures, its decisions may be both more ________________ to the people and more effective. 14. Democracy remains a democracy only as long as every citizen has a chance of being in ____________ at some point of time.

DOWN 1. Our interest in and fascination for democracy often pushes us into taking a position that democracy can address all socio-economic and political problems. If some of our expectations are not met, we start blaming the  2. The democratic government develops mechanisms for the citizens to hold the government ___________________ and mechanisms for citizens to take part in decision making whenever they think fit.  3. One of the factors on which- the economic development of a country depends.  5. The most basic ___________________ should be that it produces a government that is accountable to the citizens,and responsive to the needs and expectations of the citizens. 6. Democracy can only create conditions for achieving something. ___________________ have to take advantage of those conditions and achieve those goals.  7. Democratic governments do not have a very good record when it comes to _______________________ with citizens.  9. Ability to handle these, is thus a definite plus point of democratic regimes.  11. Democracy is not simply rule by majority opinion. The majority always needs to work with the __________________ so that governments function to represent the general view.