the impact of democracy on society?

Answer 1

Democracies are rare, but - if they are true democracies - the people have the power. Everything is decided by the people.
In the United States, we have a republic, which is governed by those the people elect.
Unfortunately, a republic is easily corrupted by weak-minded, dim-witted politicians who tend to believe they are not accountable to the people.
That has a negative impact on society...and that's eventually what turns a nation into a totalitarian regime ruled by a handful of political dynasties and their devoted cronies. In America, we are heading toward that scenario wherein the Kennedy and Bush dynasties will assume complete control and George Orwell's predictions in '1984' will become true-to-life. It's only a matter of time unless American get off their butts and use their Constitutional right to bear arms against a tyrannical and oppressive government. We are slowly- but surely - becoming nothing more than slaves in our own country. -RKO-

Answer 2

Society impacts democracy, not the other way around.

Answer 3

Society's needs/wants are better communicated to the government.

Issues and events are discussed and assessed in an open forum, so that the most cogent and supportable decisions and actions are achieved.

Opportunity escapes only those who make no effort to pursue it.

A stronger nation arises, as everyone has a stake in the outcome.

Society knows itself much better, and evolves as a result of democracy.

Answer 4

"A democracy is always temporary"

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature ; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. >From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage "
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St.; Paul, Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million;? Bush: 143 million; Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000 States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29 Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.