For people who want to be empowered and become part of the decision-making process in politics, democracy is the only way to go — but why?
Democracies work because they give people the voice and the platform they need to carve out and establish the means to advance their own development as well as elect leaders and make them accountable, Yves Leterme, secretary-general of the International IDEA, the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, told Devex Associate Editor Richard Jones in this video interview in the Mokolodi National Park in advance of the Annual Democracy Forum 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana.
Examining democracy and how it works for a country’s development process in a multidimensional perspective, he added, is crucial because there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to democracy and development.