Democracy Towards Good Governance: Study of Critical Factors Distressing the Democracy in Pakistan

Abstract

Since inception of Pakistan in 1947, the country has gone through autocratic systems and fragile democratic systems. During 65 years history of Pakistan, 40 years has been ruled by non-democratic rulers and 25 years have been ruled by fragile democratic people. It has been 40 years since the introduction of parliamentary form of democratic system but it has brought no improvement in nourishing the democratic values overall. It is undeniable fact that real representatives in democracy can move forward the democratic values. Geographically, the population of the country is living in urban areas and rural areas. According the Government statistics, 60% population is living in rural areas and 40% is living in the urban areas. The country is treading towards prosperity and development of the nation, no matter how far it may be slow taking process. The democratic system controlled by few privileged class of people does not truly representing the aspiration of the masses and consequently it does left good omen for the future of the nation. This research study is focused on the analyzing that how far our prevailing democratic system fall under the essence of democratic system and what are the critical factors affecting the essence of democracy in the country. Abraham Lincoln in his speech on November, 19, 1863 has described democracy in the following words; "Government of the people, for the people and by the people”. The research study will be taken on the basis of above three mentioned hypotheses of democracy essence i.e Government by the People, Government for the People and Government of the People. This research study has targeted the common voters in the various districts of Pakistan and conducted survey from the targeted population in rural and urban areas for the purpose of collecting information.

Keywords: Democracy, Good Governance, Rural Population, Urban population, Political parties