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How do democratic governments ensure transparency? Explain? 5 marks

Transparency is the most important feature of democracy as it ensures accountability of the decision makers to the people they represent. It is one of the pillars of governance and provides it with legitimacy. It means that the manner in which decisions are arrived at and the reasons for which they are arrived at should be known to the stakeholders whom they affect. It provides people with the power to demand answers from their representatives and reduces the chances of corruption.

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 democratic gov. ensures transparency by-:

1>ensuring that decision making process will be based on procedure.

2>.And also give right to citizen to examine the decision making process.

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democracy ensures that decision making will be based on norms and procedures.

So, a citizen who wants to know if a decision was taken through the correct procedures can find this out.

She has the right and the means to examine the process of decision making.

This is known as transparency. This factor is often missing from a non-democratic government.

Therefore, when we are trying to find out the outcomes of democracy, it is right to expect democracy to produce a government that follows procedures and is accountable to the people.

We can also expect that the democratic government develops mechanisms for citizens to hold the government accountable and mechanisms for citizens to take part in decision making whenever they think fit

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