In this essay, I shall explain why I believe that the government should not be responsible for growing civil society, but instead should be responsible for providing an environment that allows civil society to grow independently. ... As Professor Kenneth Paul Tan stated, "Civil society is a place where people can vent their views to make their ideas about what makes for good policies known"" (Saad, 2013). ...

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As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Yet a key question to ask when discussing the title of this essay is in whose eyes is the ruling regime legitimate? ... Therefore it appears that one condition necessary for democratic legitimacy is a fully competitive process-driven aggregative democracy with perfect information to allow citizens to make a fully informed choice. ... In this case although democratic le...

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In this essay, I would like to compare these two countries on the basis of Dahl's concept of participation and contestation with reference to two other institutions-the executive branch and the electoral system of both countries, in order to discuss the practicality of his concept of polyarchy " in comparing political regimes. ... Nevertheless, I will only make my conclusion final after I have interpreted the political systems of both China and Nigeria using his concepts of Participation and contestation. ... (O'Neil (2010) Page 549) This again gives rise to inclusiveness as Nige...

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