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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013 CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY UPENDRA KUMAR SINGH Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : In a representative democracy the governors are answerable to the governed
for their actions and omissions. When democratic representatives perform well, they
receive their public's support. But when they fail to discharge their responsibilities, they
face opposition and criticism of the people.. It is not merely elections or universal adult
franchise that defines the process of representative democracy. While the constitutional
framework and human rights guarantees can form the grammar of democracy, it is
always people and the ethical quality of the political process that make democracy work.
Unfortunately, one of the tendencies of representative democracy is that it turns into the
elective despotism of party government. This is because the elected representatives who
run the federal and state governments do hardly need to go back to the electorate for
every major decision, once the elections are over. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : UPENDRA KUMAR SINGH, (2013). CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2506.pdf References : - Quoted by Jayanta Dhanpala in his speech at the Citizen's Movement for Good Governance on 9th Feb'2011, Source: “THE NEED TO ENERGISE CIVIL SOCIETY”,
- John Samuel, “Towards democratic governance”,
- Paul Hirst “Representative Democracy and its Limits”, The Political Quarterly; vol.59 No.2 April-June 1988
- Thomas Carothers, “Civil Society: Think Again”, The learning curve, (Washington; Carnegie Endowment, 1999), http://www.carnegieendowment.org/pdf/CivilSociety.pdf.
- Chris Allen ,“Who needs Civil society”, Review of African Political Economy NO 73:329-337, 1997
- K. Kumar, “Civil Society: an enquiry into the usefulness of an historical term”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol.- 44, No. 3, pp 375-395.
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