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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How is civil society useful in deepening the roots of democracy?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Politics and Society

Deepening democracy means extending it beyond periodic elections in three directions. It reaches downwards to marginal groups and localities, inwards into accountability in everyday governance, and outwards into public deliberation. Civil society, the organised space between family, market and state, contributes in four ways.

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  • 1. Accountability between elections
  • 2. Inclusion of the excluded
  • 3. Deliberation and the public sphere
  • 4. Democratic habits
  • Limits
  • Conclusion

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