In ancient Greece (approximately 508 BC), Greece had a Negative Election. Every year voters who were male landowners used to vote out unacceptable candidates. Any candidate securing more than 6000 votes would qualify to be exiled for ten years. These electoral processes remained subject to a constant evolution leading to modern democracy in most of the contemporary world.

This consistent evolution of democracy witnessed an erratic and inconsistent democratic practice across the globe and thus remained devoid of an ideal and standard template to be followed. Peculiar social, economic, religious, geographical and various other factors shape the contours of a democratic system a nation-state is to follow. These varying influences have an acute impact on the democratic values of a society leading to the quality of the democratic process. Most third-world countries grapple with numerous challenges in emulating Western democracies considered to be role models for the rest of the world.

These countries have been encountering authoritarian and monarchical regimes with less or almost no susceptibility to the ideal democratic system of governance. Ironically, successive regimes did not endeavour to introduce prerequisites essential for fostering a democratic society. Resultantly, the people of these countries accepted........

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