Democracy but which one?
Yuba Nath Lamsal Democracy has become a global lingua franca in the present 21 st century. The democratic upsurge has swept all over the world either forcing the dictators of various kinds to bow down before the power of people or has simply toppled the regime and replaced it with the government of people’s representatives. Many countries in the world have now democratic dispensations, while in some countries this process is intensifying. But there is one stark reality the world has witnessed at present that is despite such a marvelous global popular upsurge in the march for democracy, the genuine democratization process has yet to take place in many of the countries in the developing world. The people in various countries have overthrown the authoritarian regimes and installed a new one that claim to be democratic and vow to work for the greater interest of the people. Democracy is still in fragile state in the newly emerged democracies especially in the developing countr...