The Democracy on the Relation between the State and the Citizen

Abstract

In this article, the author raised questions as to how the extent of participation should be upheld in a democratic relationship between the state and the citizen in developing countries, so as to progress economic development towards Western standards in accordance with a principle that economic development fosters democratic governance, and how duties of citizenship towards the state in developing countries should be established so that concordance could be attained, that is, human rights are not restricted by the state. It was discovered that political participation is the best reflection of relationship between the state and the people, better than living by the will or desire of a leader, whether from election or any other means. Furthermore, populist policies should be deemed as a mechanism that hinders good relation between leaders of a state and its citizens, so far as becoming a state of indoctrination, as these policies could founder a state and cause its citizen to fall behind and remain underdeveloped.