Two of the world's leading democracy watchers have adopted different approaches to explore whether democracy delivers what it is supposed to deliver. The Freedom House approaches this problem by looking at two objective criteria: Political Rights in a country and the prevailing Civil Culture, while WIN/Gallup International uses a subjective criteria; it approaches nationally representative samples of citizens to find out whether they feel they are being ruled by the will of the people. There is a wide gap between the scores from these two approaches, and our paper is designed to investigate: Why?
Our world knows many conflicts which stand in the way of global peace; civil wars and political unrest, global economic and financial crises, terrorist acts, lack of food security, access to safe water and the list goes on. Will these issues of concern continue to take place in our world and which are people most worried about? Which stands most in the way of global peace? WIN/Gallup International Association, the largest independent association of market research and polling firms conducted a survey in 50 countries across the globe and in all 7 regions to find out what are the hurdles on the path to global peace and which nation leaders will fight for it.