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What is Democracy?
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... Major social and political struggles were involved, but, broadly speaking, political, social, and technological developments were closely interrelated. In developing countries today, however, there is a major disjunction between political, social, and technological developments.
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... He noted five levels on which democracy has been defined by different participants: self-determination, majority rule (through multiparty government) , basic civil liberties, extended human rights, and government fairness or freedom from corruption (see Gastil, 1990~.
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