Is Democracy Overrated?

Is Democracy
Overrated?

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Purpose of critical thinking in given case study context.............................................................1
Understanding critical thinking skills in given case study context.............................................3
Evaluation of ideas as per the case study....................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Critical thinking skills are such skills that help in identifying various solutions for a
specific issue. It is significant for a person to have these skills as it do not only help in making
the personal life successful but it also plays a major role in building up professional life. By these
skills, a person is capable to create various accurate solutions for overcoming from a situation
with least loss and high profit. This assignment is focused upon a purposes and applications of
such skills to the case study given. In addition, a discussion is also made for examining and
understanding skills of critical thinking by ascertaining assertions, statements and claims that are
made from this case study (Akkerman, 2017). At last, a discussion is also made regarding
evaluating of certain ideas that are generated from this case study and on that basis certain
arguments are listed that will provide a clear understanding about this topic.
MAIN BODY
Purpose of critical thinking in given case study context
This case study has generated an idea about how democracy is utilised by government of
various countries. A democratic nation is a nation in which the citizens perspectives has power to
make important decision regarding which government they will choose from all. Moreover, it is
also said that in such countries, people have right to get information, voting power, and to stop or
implementing some rules and regulations which are imposed by government. As per this case
study, it has been elaborated that democracy is an overrated approach that do not provide major
benefits to common people such as individual freedom and human welfare. There are many
concepts which are included in it but in reality the perception is far different from the reality.
Different countries people are provided various rights, an appropriate judicial system and
many such things that are not meant for them. All these things were utilised by political parties
and political leaders in order to their own advantage. In this case, as per the political party
individuals will be imprisoned for life than the judge have to approve this order and it don't even
matter whether individual was guilty or not (Bretschneider, 2017). Similarly, if the political party
want to free a specific criminal than it can do it very easily. So, democracy was for only name
but it do not serve any kind of benefits to people and for the nation. Instead this policy that was
followed instead of democracy was Totalitarianism that is completely opposite from a
democratic nation. So on this basis, there were certain issues by which possible improvements
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