What if the 'people' don't want democracy?
Sarmila Bose
ALJAZEERA – February 20, 2012
Libyans would be interested to know that across the five South Asian countries, two-thirds of respondents also expressed a yearning for the rule of a "strong leader who does not have to bother about elections". There was also an astonishingly high level of support for the option of military rule, even in India. In Pakistan and Bangladesh, who have both experienced military rule (and hence know its negatives), 60 per cent of respondents endorsed military rule. Even in India, which prides itself in never having allowed the army to venture out of civilian government control in more than sixty years, 23 per cent of respondents approved of army rule. The higher the level of education, the lower was the support for military rule, but as illiterate respondents across the five countries registered a high of 57 per cent support for military rule, even after falling off significantly with levels of education, 22 per cent of those who were graduates and post-graduates were still endorsing military rule.
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http://deshcalling.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-if-people-dont-want-democracy.html
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