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support. Since the support ratio fluctuates, it affects the policies, strategies and
attitudes of the Prime Minister and ranking members of political parties. Even
though there is a criticism that the frequent survey of support ratio is likely to
make the decision making of the political leaders short-sighted, frequent opinion
poll is one of the effective ways to keep political leaders attentive and
responsive to opinions of the general public. As is shown in the table of the
results of recent elections, any party including the ruling party of the time could
not get more than 50 % votes in the single seat constituency as a whole in
every recent election. About 40% or more voters who responded the survey
are non-committal to any political party. Fluctuation or switching is a very crucial
factor for politicians and therefore democracy as well.

Concluding Remarks

Democracy is a political philosophy, principle and ideas widely supported in
the world. But “democracy” in reality is with many problems and challenges.
Without doubt, USA is one of important leaders and a champion of democratic
world. Yet, America which was called a melting pot is still un-melted and
suffers a lot of problems which are common in developing countries. To
construct an appropriate sustainable democracy is a very difficult task. But we
have to continue this strenuous work, believing that the better society, the
better world will come not for limited number of people but for all the people in
the society and in the world. It may be a long way to go. But we have to
continue.

For this purpose, we need to stand on our own feet and squarely face
problems and challenges ahead of us. We need to exchange our ideas and
opinions, and experiences of success as well as failure. We need to work
together.

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