In this lecture, we will study about:
1. Concept of Democracy and types of democracy which includes Direct Democracy and Indirect Democracy.
2. Functionalist perspective of Democracy as Power Bank by Talcott Parsons.
3. John Stuart Mill on democracy and concept of Trusteeship.
4. Features and functions of democracy.
5. Abraham Lincoln on Democracy.
6. Rousseau concept of direct Democracy, Popular Sovereignty and General will.
7. Robert Dahl on Elite Pluralism and democracy.
8. Amartya Sen on democracy, freedom, capabilities and development.
9. Gandhi sevagram model of democracy and democratic decentralisation.
10. Marxist critic of liberal democracy and western democracy.
11. Communism as a true form of democracy.
12. Antonio Grahmsci on Democracy, Civil Society and Hegemony.
13. Populism and Democracy.
14. Critic of democracy by classical scholars like Plato, Socrates and Aristotle.
15. Democracy and populism.
16. Tocqueville on Tyranny of majority in democracy.
17. Elite theories and critic of democracy by Pareto, Mosca, Michels and C wright Mills.
18. Francis Fukuyama on End of History and Rise of western democracies and capitalism.
19. Gunnar Myrdall on democracy, Asian drama and soft state.
18. Challenges, Pitfalls and Limitations of Democracy.

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