Democracy is a topic of many discussions nowadays. We are surrounded by political matters in every aspect of our life, thus we need to understand what all of these subjects actually mean. Democracy has played an important role at allowing our society to grow and get stronger, but it goes further than that. It gives

Democracy for me means that the people should be the ones in charge of the country. The people should get the opportunity to decide on serious matters and to steer the country in the right direction. Although this was the main idea of democracy when it was first implemented, it has been anything but that

Corruption, power and money are three words which are used the most to describe politicians lately. With dictatorial countries they have been widely known problems for centuries, but lately those words have been used a lot to describe western leaders also, like ex-American president Trump, or Mailis Reps from Estonia. Before we can talk about

The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people (Council of Europe, n.d.) In my eyes, democracy should be a form of power where all the

Democracy means to me that every citizen can vote for whoever they want no matter what their ethnicity or income is. I feel that there will never be an agreement on what is the perfect democracy. I think that many countries, who claim to have a great democracy, are corrupted instead. For me honesty is

To me, democracy is when everyone’s votes are taken into account, no matter their race, gender or sexual orientation. Everyone is equal in the eyes of democracy. In Estonia, the president serves a more representative role while the prime minister has the power to actually make a difference. There’s also the parliament which consists of

Democracy is something you always hear a lot about. We always praise it as something fundamentally great and amazing. The crown jewel we've carried with us since Ancient Greece. We talk about it, as it is the best thing to ever happen to humanity, whilst always complaining about what the government is doing and how