About the models Held has said that the models are complex networks about economic and social conditions of the democratic state. While presenting the model Held has not allowed his prejudices to dominate. He has impartially portrayed the picture of democratic structure. Explaining the nature of models Held maintains, "Models of democracy involve necessarily a shifting balance between descriptive, explanatory [...]
Definition and Nature: The students of political science very often come across such terms as liberal democracy, socialist democracy, plebiscitary democracy, etc. There are also many other terms. Perhaps looking at these terms the well-known political scientist Bernard Crick once said that it was the most promiscuous term. It is because a military dictator sometimes claims that his country is [...]
Definition of Democracy: Democracy has directly originated from the French democratic, but its real origin is Greek. In Greek there are two words—demos and kratos. The former means people while the latter rule and what we mean by democracy in English is rule of the people. David Held, a renowned authority on the concept, defines the term as "Democracy means [...]