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Explain democracy as an order of society. What are the factors preventing people’s participation in politics?

  • UPSC 2020
  • Politics and Society

Democracy is usually seen as a form of government: free elections, majority rule and accountable rulers. Sociologists see it more broadly as an order of society, a pattern of social relations built on equality, liberty and fraternity that the political form both needs and reproduces. B. R. Ambedkar, following John Dewey, wrote in Annihilation of…

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