This is not to say that the idea of democracy does not appeal to peoples of different cultures and political background. Democracy in practice today is built around the process of procedural democracy, in which people vote openly, freely and regularly to choose their government. Two important trends mark this decline – US domestic political problems and the reclassification of India, the world’s most populous democracy, from Free to Partly Free status. Political leadership is all about understanding the mood of the moment, seizing the opportunities and organizing the institutions to deliver. When institutional checks and balances fail due to corruption, corrosion or incompetence, then new forms of political leadership arise to challenge the old.

Source: The Star May 08, 2021 01:10 UTC