Values of Democracy and Youth

Editor: Nurul Mu'az Omar

Publisher: Institut Kajian Dasar

ISBN: 9789838840675

Pages: 45pp

Year: 2003

Weight: 0.87kg

Price: RM15

Democracy contributes enormously to our social development. however, the process which is responsible for the emergence and succesful adaptation of democratic institutions in society is not yet well understood.

Democratic values and institutions did not arise as a direct contradiction of authoritarian forms of governance. Rather, they emerged by a gradual change in the principles that governed the distribution of power in society.