Measurement of Public Perception towards Democratization and Consolidated Democracy: A Case of Pakistan

Abstract

The primary purpose of this study is to find out the utility of public perception in democracies and democratization explicitly in Pakistan. The word “Democracy” is very striking in recent times and this is the most cited word on the internet as many people want to comprehend democracy. Most of the countries in the world practice democratic systems with hundreds of different designs and give copiously normative and empirical data on democracy. This study has been based on a mixed method and explanatory approach in order to achieve the dissertation's goals. Because the goal of this study is to measure society's perception, a rational quantitative method is combined with a qualitative method. As this research also entails consideration to identify society’s perception and the survey has been based on the cluster sampling method with close-ended questions. Following a few limitations, this study of democracy adopted the cognitive dimension to choose a sample for the survey. There are many conceptual interpretations of democracy as each country’s take on democracy is different e.g. for some democracy is considered as a body that safeguards individual liberties and for another country democracy is the indication of free and fair elections. Hence, this paper argues that whatever the perception is, a country’s perception of democracy is totally dependent on its citizens.