Comments on: Nehru’s Position on Corruption in High Places

By: dana

dana — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:34:46 +0000

That is really interesting, is this view representative of general views in India?

By: AG

AG — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:05:09 +0000

Dana: Transparency is critical. Democracy is strictly optional.

The former is a value, the latter is just a set of rules.

By: dana

dana — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:32:25 +0000

I recently came across the almost heretical notion that perhaps transparency is more important than outright democracy (don’t have the link on hand but can dig it out if interested).

Argentina (democratic, but corrupt) was compared against Singapore (hardly a liberal democracy, but transparent) and came out the sore loser.

I wonder if that can also be applied to the case of India? Although I hardly think democracy and transparency are mutually exclusive.