DEMOCRATIC INCENTIVIZATION IN PAKISTAN WITH REFERENCE TO SOCIO-POLITICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The idea of universal franchise serves as a core fundamental of the modern democratic framework, where each person enjoys their right to vote. But the societies with low political literacy and poor understanding are intellectually misused by religious and political demagogues, resulting in populist governments. Pakistani society faces some additional problems of a traditional feudal and ethnic nature in this regard. This paper aims to address this lacuna and suggests the introduction of incentivization project for voters depending upon their socio-political understandings. Formal education serves as the objective standard for this incentivization scheme. It would result in the rise of literacy rate and political awareness, which would ultimately foster the true democratic values and rational abilities among the people. This is a qualitative study; statements are made after carefully monitoring political developments and taking part in academic and intellectual discussions about the topic, which are mainly supported by public material. The general structure of the study has been formed after a careful analysis of scholarly arguments and news stories. The democratic concept of Universal Franchise is challenged under discussion. Analytical and descriptive approaches are used to explore and portray the main democratic concepts along with the relationships between them. The study relies heavily on secondary sources because gathering empirical data would have been expensive and not possible at all times. Nevertheless, this limitation was ultimately surmounted through deduction and appraisal of the corpus of information as presented in books, official documents, and research articles.