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“Democracy is considered the best form of government and is clearly better than any other alternative”. Mention three relevant points to show what it offers.

The three relevant points to show what democracy offers are

i. A democratic government is a more accountable form of government. A democracy requires that the rulers have to attend to the needs of the people.


ii. Democracy is based on negotiation and deliberation, which improves the quality of decision-making.


iii. It allows us to correct our own mistakes. In a democracy, there is always a scope that the rulers can change their wrong decisions or the rulers themselves can be changed.


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