[English /Social studies Assignment] Democracy creates stability in a society

[English /Social studies Assignment]
Democracy creates stability in a society (individual work)

Democracy is a very common government system applied by most countries. It ensures people’s rights of participating domestic decisions making either directly or indirectly. Under this condition, people remain the sovereignty of their countries and the right to speak out.
During a long time, people were living under the monarchy. At that time, a country was usually ruled by a single person—the king. The subjects were the property of him. People didn’t have the right to make decisions for their country, to propose or even to live. People were deprived and maltreated. How could such a society be stable?
After World War II, people were tired of warfare and looking forward to peace. In order to build a stable society, most countries began to implement democracy.
After the wave of democratization, some countries successfully created stability, such as Spain and Argentina. However, some other counties felled in this evolution, like Soviet Union. It’s odd. All these countries applied democracy, why some succeeded but some felled?
Firstly, we should appreciate the meaning of stability. Stability is a social phenomenon. It composes many aspects, such as economy, politics and society. Stability of a society may refer to meeting all these conditions. That is not a single word “democracy” can explain.
Personally, I think a government cannot decide the stability of a society all by itself. Democracy is a method to achieve the goal, stability, but not the goal itself. Just like a cup which helps us to drink but it is not water. What is really important is the conditions of the country and how the leaders’ administration. A poor country can only become rich by trading or producing but not a government system.
However, we should also realize that democracy really bring us a lot of advantages. As I mentioned above, democracy respect every citizen in a society. Everyone has the right to express his own opinion. This allows a more complete consideration and meets people’s need of fairness. Furthermore, separated power could avoid dictatorship such to avoid useless conflicts. Besides these, democracy could indicate all people’s interest but not only a specific part of aristocrats. To satisfy most people’s need so that to reduce the conflict. Under democratic system, options are decided by the public, results are also shouldered by the public.
In such a way, government is constantly renewed, needs are also satisfied. The society should be obviously improved and stable. However, things usually do not go that way. Democracy is mostly practiced in the form of referendum or election. In these cases, the majority won but the minority loss. This contrarily causes instability. On one hand, the majority is happy; on the other hand, the minority is suffering, this causes a conflict. That is the fatal drawback which democracy is always facing.
In a word, we should appreciate democracy. It helps the process to stability. At the same time, we should resolve the conflict it brings to us. In this way we can achieve the goal of a stable society. (503 words)