MERITS OF DEMOCRACY : 1. The participation of the individual members in the government facilitates to enlist their sympathy and co - operation to the success of the government. 2. It is an effective form to educate the public about political, economic and social affairs. 3.     it is helpful to promote patriotism among the people and prevents occurrence of violent revolutions. 4.     It helps to make progress and development and enables changes to take place in a peaceful manner. 5.     It ensures to the people freedom of speech, conscience, assembly and action.DEMERITS OF DEMOCRACY : 1.     It sometimes leads to establish the majority view over the minority view. 2.     Party leaders and political office holders in government control the citizens and the members of the party.3.     It does not encourage individuals to give their opinions. 4.     It is a very expensive form of government because elections have to be conducted periodically to various office.

Merits of democracy r as follows: (1) People r free to chose their representatives. (2) People can change the current rulers after a period of time ,if they want to do so. (3) Decisions r made in favour nd fr benefit of people .(4) It also allows u to crrct it's mistake .Demerits of democracy r as follows :(1) Leaders use dirty tricks to win the election game. (2) It creates a sense of disunity among the society. (3) Many of the times, the candidate of higher status/class threaten or over power the candidate of lower status/class.