Let me begin by establishing what democracy and stability refer to. Democracy refers to a system of government where political sovereignty is retained by the people and exercised directly by citizens or through their elected representatives or a government for the people, by the people. The ideas of ‘majority wins’ and ‘power to the people’ are the main ideas that are upheld in democracy. I feel that democracy creates stability in the society as the people get to choose what they want for themselves.
What does stability refer to? It refers to a government bringing the country to “equilibrium”, where there is economic, social and political stability. Stability generally comes about when there is little or minimal problems in terms of social, economic and political state.
Democracy provides people with freedom, the liberty to choose or do what they want. This is especially important in achieving stability. In terms of economic stability, people must have the right to choose who they want to trade with and people who come to trade can make their own choices and not be bound by any trading laws. To create social stability, there must not be any conflicting ideologies with the government. Democracy does create social stability by allowing the people decide what they want by asking for change through their political representatives.
Democracy is also able to create political stability. The people are allowed to express their views freely through their votes by choosing what they want for their society, whether it be amendments made to policies or during the country’s general elections, thus, bringing out political stability. However, for democracy to work, there must be certain criteria. The people would have to be literate or have a good understanding and acceptance of democracy. If the society is not like this, the minority would be unhappy with the results of the elections and cause trouble.
Also, having full democracy would be “tedious” for the simple reason that for every change that the government makes to any policy, they would have to make a vote and the people would have to decide, making it a time and resource consuming style of governance. Going back to the must have criteria, since democracy brings out economic, social and political stability, people would have access to education this would increase the literacy level of the people. This increased literacy level would mean that the people would easily gain acceptance of democracy. So, this “criteria” issue would be solved.
In conclusion, I feel that democracy creates stability in a country as the people would be able to choose what they want to satisfy them, thus creating a country that has little problems in terms of social, economic and political state.
