Democratic Consolidation and Will of Civil Community: Lessons from Nigeria, South Africa and Brazil

Abstract

Democracy is the most practicing political practice in the contemporary era. The majority of the nations and countries are striving to build strong roots of democracy. Every country takes its time to build a strong political system over the period of time. Democracy is based on free will, free and fair elections, impartiality, equality and free judiciary. Democracy is successful in developed countries especially in European and Western countries but on the other hand, the developing countries are not enjoying the same benefits of democracy. This research article explains the journey of democracy in Nigeria, South Africa and Brazil. It tries to explore the both positive and negative aspects of democracy in these developing countries. This research is purely qualitative in nature which is based on secondary data collection. This research article concludes that civil society of all these countries wants to build a strong democratic system in which South Africa is successful to satisfactory level. While on the other hand, Nigeria and Brazil are facing numerous issues regarding democratic consolidation.