democracy creates stability in a society

As we have a rather vague topic at hand, we need to first define or explore the different terms used in the question, democracy, stability and society.

We will first start with democracy; it is a system that is adopted by a country to govern their country to bring about political or social equality. There are also different types of democracies depending on which aspect they lean towards.

Next, we have stability; there are three aspects we can look into, socially, politically and economically, these are the different aspects we can look into during my argument.

Lastly, we have the most complicating term in the whole question, society; it can be seen as an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

We will look at two countries that have adopted a democratic society, with two different endings and result.

Sweden is a parliamentary democracy, which means that all public power proceeds from the people. While at the national level, the people are represented by the Riksdag which has legislative power. The Government implements the Riksdags decisions and draws up proposals for new laws or law amendments; this ensures there is political as well as social stability. There are many ways citizens can influence Swedish politics, for example by taking part in referendums, joining a political party or sending in your comments on reports presented by the Government, people in the country are all entitled to vote for which parties are to represent them in the Riksdag, county council and municipal council.

Thus Sweden is considered the most democratic country; people there also enjoy a high standard of living due to its modern technology and liberal laws. As Sweden is a major exporter of iron, copper and timber, materials that are important in many different processes, it would fetch high profits for the country, thus bringing about a stable economy.

Taiwan adopted a democratic system as an effort to pull away from China, an authoritarian state. Even years after Taiwan adopted a democratic system; there are still many ‘political infighting’ between different parties have caused much confusion and toppled the balance in the political aspect. The economic and social stability is also affected by the political imbalance as they build upon the stability of the political aspect. An example would be when Taiwan’s previous president Chen Sui Bian was suspected of corruption, it caused an uproar in the country as the other party pressured him to step down, while the supporters of Chen Sui Bian stepped up to show their support for him. The riots then resulted in some violent acts.

Thus we have seen two different results of a democratic system, showing us both the positive and negative points of a democratic system. We can also conclude that whether democracy creates stability in a society is dependant on the attitude of the people in that particular society, as no one system can fit all the countries.