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Give any two characteristics of democracy.

The following characteristics of democracy are:

• Democracy means the rule of people. It means a representative is directly or indirectly elected by people rules the democratic country.


• Each adult whose age is above 18 years ago irrespective of caste, religion, gender or any other discrimination cast one vote which has equal value.


• The elections should be held regularly (i.e. after a fixed period of time), freely and fairly.


• All the political parties and citizens have freedom of speech and expression.


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State whether the statement is correct or not:

Government in poor countries should spend less on poverty reduction, health, education and spend more on industries and infrastructure.

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State whether the statement is correct or not:

Industrialized countries can afford democracy but the poor need dictatorship to become rich.

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Examine the three common features of democratic countries.

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