{"id":1009,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/critically-examine-macphersons-view-on-democracy-upsc-psir-2013-0603\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:14","slug":"critically-examine-macphersons-view-on-democracy-upsc-psir-2013-0603","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/critically-examine-macphersons-view-on-democracy-upsc-psir-2013-0603\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically examine Macpherson\u2019s view on democracy."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Macpherson defends democracy as human development, not electoral procedure &#8211; modern theory has lost classical democracy&#039;s moral purpose strength = restoring democracy&#039;s moral core \u2192 open question = is his remedy realisable<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">empirical school attacked (Schumpeter \u2192 elites for votes \/ Dahl \u2192 group competition) \u2192 both reduce democracy to a market-equilibrium system \u2192 procedure, not emancipation; humanist aspiration weakened \u2192 classical moral foundation recalled (developmental process + emancipation) \u2192 liberal democracy&#039;s self-image rejected (no liberal monopoly, not the perfect form) \u2192 property franchise, workers\u2019 rights only after socialist pressure \u2192 liberalism historically undemocratic \u2192 communist \/ Third World systems may also qualify \u2192 core distinction: extractive vs developmental power \u2192 capitalism gives the propertied class both, workers keep minimal developmental power, lose creative freedom \u2192 ideal democracy: maximise developmental power, remove extractive power \u2192 three spheres: constitutional + socialist production + equality values \u2192 democracy not built on institutions alone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Norman Barry: the ideal is idealistic, hard to realise under scarcity \u2192 abolishing extractive power assumes conditions that rarely hold<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">his worth lies in retrieval \u2014 democracy recovered as creative freedom and human development judged by feasibility the prescription falls short, but the moral recovery of democracy is his real contribution<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[46],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[51],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1009","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-46","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-democracy","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1009\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}