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SENIOR SECTION

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

CLASS: IX- DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

CHAPTER: 1 DEMOCRACY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

SUMMARY:
 
This text book and this chapter are all about ‘democracy’. Democracy has expanded during the last hundred years to more and more countries in the world. More than half of the independent countries in the world today are democracies. The expansion of democracy has not been smooth and straight. It has seen several ups and downs in different countries. This chapter explains different stories on the making and unmaking of democracy from different parts of the world. These stories are meant to give a sense of what it means to experience democracy and its absence.
 
The Chapter starts with an incident that took place in the Latin American country of Chile- ‘A military coup of 11th September 1973’. Its effects on democracy, followed by the story of ‘Poland and its leader Lech Walesa’.
 
It also tells us about the role played by great leaders like Michelle Bachelet and Aung San Suu Kyi in the making of democracy.
 
The final question we analyse in relation to democracy - ‘Is International Organisations like UN democratic?’
 
1 SALVADOR ALLENDE:
 
Profile:
 
The founder leader of the Socialist Party of Chile and led the Popular Unity coalition to victory in the Presidential election in 1970. Killed on 11September 1973 by Augusto Pinochet, the Army General who led a military
coup in Chile.
Reforms:
Reform of educational system
Free milk for children and redistribution of lands to the landless farmers
Significance:
Allende opposed the foreign Multi National Companies for taking away the natural
resources like copper from the country.
His Last Words:
“Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! – I have certainty that, at the least, I will be a moral lesson to castigate felony, cowardice, and treason.”
 
2 GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET:
 
Augusto Pinochet was the Army General who led a military coup in Chile on 11September 1973 and over threw the democratically elected government of Allende through conspiracy and violence.
 
3 Military Coup:
 
Military coup is the sudden over throw of a government illegally by military. It may or may not be violent in nature.
 
4 Michelle Bachelet and her father Alberto
 
ALBERTO BACHELET:
 
His role in the political history of Chile:
 
Alberto Bachelet a Chilean Air Force General was killed by Pinochet because he refused to join the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet. General Bachelet’s wife and daughter Michelle were put in prison and tortured by
Pinochet. 
 
5 MICHELLE BACHELET: Her Vision and Dedication:
 
Michelle was the victim of hatred, she had dedicated her life to reverse that hatred and turn it into understanding, tolerance & love.
 
Profile:
 
 
1. Michelle Bachelet, daughter of General Alberto Bachelet.
 
2. Elected President of Chile in January 2006.
 
3. A medical doctor and a moderate socialist.
 
4. Michelle became the first woman to be a Defense Minister in Latin America.
 
6 Evaluate the demerits of Communist government of Poland in 1980s.
                        (OR)
Mention any two factors which made Poland a non-democratic country in 1980s.
 
Ans:
 
Only Communist Party was allowed to function. The people could not freely choose the leaders of the communist party or the government.
Those who spoke against the leaders or the party or the government were put in prison.
There had no freedom of speech, to organize or to form trade unions or associations.
 
7 LECH WALESA:
 
Profile and Achievements:
 
Lech Walesa and workers together signed a 21-point agreement with the government that ended their strike.
The government agreed to recognize the workers’ right to form independent trade unions and their right to strike. Accordingly a new trade union called ‘Solidarity’ was formed.
In October 1990, Poland’s first presidential elections took place.
More than one party contested.
Walesa was elected as the President of Poland.
 
8 Mention two features of Democracy and two features of Non-Democracy
                           (OR)
Differentiate between Democracy and Non-Democracy. 
(REF: TB-Pg: No- 7 for answer. Write the answer in your class note book)
 
 9 Point out the three important features in the expansion of democracy in Twentieth Century. (REF: TB-Page No.10 – Write the answer in your class note book)
 
 10 Describe the growth of democracy in Britain after 17th century.
Ans:
In Britain, the progress towards democracy started much before the French Revolution.
But the progress was very slow.
Through the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, series of political events reduced
the power of monarchy and feudal lords.
The right to vote was granted to more and more people.
 
 11 Mention the main features of 19th century democracy in the world.
 
Ans:
 
In the nineteenth century struggles for democracy often centered on political equality, freedom and justice.
One major demand was the right for every adult citizen to vote.
Many European countries that were becoming more democratic did not initially allow all people to vote.
 
In some countries only people owning property had the right to vote.
Women did not have the right to vote.
 
12 UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE:
 
First country in the world to grant Universal Adult Franchise- New Zealand (1893)-
Universal Adult Franchise in USA in 1965
Universal Adult Franchise in INDIA in 1950
 
13 A BRIEF NOTE ON GHANA AND THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY AFTER THE END OF COLONIALISM:
 
Original Name: Ghana used to be a British colony named Gold Coast.
Independence: It became independent in 1957
Importance: It inspired other African countries to struggle for freedom.
President: Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana. (Pronounced Enkruma)
Present Condition of Democracy: “Democracy in Ghana could not remain long”.
Reasons:
After independence, Nkrumah became the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana. He got himself elected president for life which was against democratic
principles.
Soon after, in 1966, he was overthrown by the military. So democracy could not remain in Ghana for long time.
 
14 Examine any three causes of the expansion of democracy after Second World War (1945).
 
Ans:
 
Decolonisation:- After Second World War, The European countries withdrew from Aisa,
Africa and South America. Most of the newly independent countries of these continents
chose to become democracies.
 
End of Communist Rule:-Poland, East Germany and several other Communist Parties
ruled countries became free from the control of the Soviet Union during 1989-90. They
chose to become democracies.
 
Disintegration of Soviet Union (USSR):- The Soviet Union comprised 15 Republics. All the constituent Republics emerged as independent democratic countries. 
 
 
15 Point out the political changes that took place in 1990 in the sub- continent of the Indian sub continent. 
Ans:
 
Pakistan and Bangladesh made a transition from army rule to democracy in 1990s.Recently in Nepal the king gave up many of his powers to become a constitutional monarch to be guided by elected leaders.
 
However, these changes were not permanent. In 1999 General Musharraf brought back army rule in Pakistan. In 2005 the new king of Nepal dismissed the elected government and took back political freedoms that people had won in the previous decade. In
Bangladesh Military captured power in early 2008.
 
 


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