Cuse_of_the_Lack_of_Democracy

CAUSES ESSAY CAUSES OF DE DECLINE OF DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD The three main important things in a democratic system are: Freedom, Civil Rights and Political Rights. When there is a lack of democracy it means that an individual or group in a position of power is excluding others from participating in a system of government. This can happen when, for example, a country is ruled by a dictator or an autocrat. Currently we have many threats against democracy. The most outstanding causes of lack of democracy are: economic crisis, social crisis, and political crisis. Economic crisis is related to the excessive indebtedness, external and/or internal, that causes deficit that generate greater obligations to the states to take care of their services. In consequence, this causes problems of inflation, unemployment and poverty. Economic crisis represents a genuine threat to democracies. This point has three important implications. First, when population feel that their quality of standard of living are dropping, which is the moment when most people experience economic crisis, a good political action can help contain the negative impact of economic crisis, minimize its effects, and prevent bad economic conditions in the population. But, if the government fails in its actions, the quality of life of the population is at risk. This is a threat to democracy because the direct consequence would be a social problem when the population does not found a regular way to solve their own problems and they can take actions that affected democracy such as insurgency, looting, take the street and, in consequence destabilize the democratic government. Second, the absence of an adequate political response to economic crisis will cause an intensifying of crisis, with the consequence that the economy will become an element of political discontent in the population, who can take desperate actions that can destabilize the democratic government. Economic crisis does not lead directly to political crisis, but is an important element that contributes to it. Finally, democratic decline can not be understood merely in terms of technical-economic issues, but as the product of various political and institutional reforms that are essential for completing economic reform in one country. Social crisis can erode the foundations of the democratic system. The conditions most contributing to a democratic future for a given country include democracy itself, prosperity, growth with moderate inflation, declining income inequality, a favorable international climate, and parliamentary institutions rather than dictatorial or autocratic ones. Countries that have had several years of economic recession, in which the living standards of the majority have decreased, income inequality has increased; and authority has shifted to one person without check and balances, there is a profound need, and disillusionment grows in a majority of the population. The major consequence of this frustration in the population is the possibility that a military regime could assume the power or people could desperate elect a populist candidate to conduct the government. Either or both produces a breakdown of constitutional order and a decline of democracy. Political Crisis is the third cause of the lack or decline democracy of democracy worldwide. This includes three important elements. The first element is a popular apathy and passivity and the absence of options other than the traditional ones. The second is the elite pacts, and the demagoguery of the leaders of individual nations. The third set of elements includes a fear of uncertainty and the restrictive effect of the new international and regional climate. The result is the dissociation and marginalization of individuals from society because the people are not generates political apathy and prompted a critical distancing of the public from democratic institutions and processes. The existence of widespread popular passivity, apathy, distrust of democratic institutions, and absence of democratic options foment widens that the population look for desperate options in non democratic ways. Finally, there is a real jeopardy of lack of democracy around the world. The most outstanding causes of lack of democracy are: economic crisis, social crisis, and political crisis. None of them alone can kill the democracy by itself, but economic crisis is a good factor to foment the social crisis and the social crisis is a good factor to help to reach the political crisis. Therefore the combination among these three elements can cause the lack of democracy in a country.