Virtue of Electroral democracy

It is realized that nation state came into existence out of fear (of theft, organized attack etc.). In different parts of world organization of state took different forms, though their basic themes were largely similar, i. e., the system controlled by a central authority. Everything revolved around that center, laws related to both material and immaterial stuffs etc.

Advent of this system was not unnatural or accidental, rather it was well in accordance with human nature. “Everyone works for material incentive? Well, it is, but I don’t think it is all. People came in contact with immaterial stuffs. God, soul, ethics and morality, they tried to know objective of life. But nobody ever knew the secret and purpose of the human life! In fact, if we assume happiness is what human beings thrive for, then we are confused again, what do we need for it, and how much? Material stuffs or immaterial stuffs?

Monarchs became official owner of their states, including people. Unlike the democratic age we are living in now, individual right/liberty was not known in that time. But I don’t think people of that time were bearing more violence/exploitation than how much we bear now. We saw monarchs like Harsa who distributed all his personal wealth to people. And Ashoka who devoted most part of his life time in welfare of people. What was incentive for them to be so noble? Reputation, is not it?

And monarchs had understood that a kingdom could not prosper without collective effort of people. It should be noted here that since a monarch is on the top of the management structure, it is quite easy for him to manage the system, if he is efficient.

However, an Interesting change occurred after industrial revolution started. People got a wonderful opportunity to create immense amount of wealth (by doing business) without holding political position, this resulted imbalance in power structure. Then we saw French revolution and modern concept of democracy i. e., electoral democracy.

In electoral democracy, the ruling people are considered as the servant of common people, but they hold as much power as monarchs had possessed. Shortly, people got no more power from this new system, except the voting right. Since the ruling people are not ensured of any kind of incentive, they try to exploit their power which they hold for short duration.

Thus Resulting only chaos, this is what virtue of electoral democracy is.