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The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review

Democracy is globally accepted form of government, especially when the technological development going to make this world a global village. Scholars think about the ideas of global democratic government, wherein short fall of democracy is ill-fated. However, political accountability is the essential...

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Main Authors: Sadiq, Saiqa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ajis, Mohd Na'eim
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Language:English
Published: European Centre for Research Training and Development UK 2018
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JC Political theory
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spelling my.uum.repo.314772024-11-12T10:07:46Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31477/ The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review Sadiq, Saiqa Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Ajis, Mohd Na'eim JC Political theory Democracy is globally accepted form of government, especially when the technological development going to make this world a global village. Scholars think about the ideas of global democratic government, wherein short fall of democracy is ill-fated. However, political accountability is the essential characteristics of democracy and it cannot flourish without it. This paper adopts a qualitative approach by using qualitative content analysis and observation over social networking sites (SNS), in which democracy, accountability, and freedom of expression will extensively use. The extensive literature review indicates that social media facilitates the freedom of expression, provides opportunities of direct political participation, improves the electoral process and increase political accountability in authoritarian countries and emerging democracies. However, an emerging democracy like Pakistan, where social media trend is up surging and accountability condition is destitute. It is highly justified to investigate the role of social media towards political accountability European Centre for Research Training and Development UK 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31477/1/GJPSA%2006%2005%202018%2039-47.pdf Sadiq, Saiqa and Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah and Ajis, Mohd Na'eim (2018) The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review. Global Journal of Political Science and Administration, 6 (5). pp. 39-47. ISSN 2054-6335, 2054-6343 https://eajournals.org/gjpsa/
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Sadiq, Saiqa
Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah
Ajis, Mohd Na'eim
The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review
description Democracy is globally accepted form of government, especially when the technological development going to make this world a global village. Scholars think about the ideas of global democratic government, wherein short fall of democracy is ill-fated. However, political accountability is the essential characteristics of democracy and it cannot flourish without it. This paper adopts a qualitative approach by using qualitative content analysis and observation over social networking sites (SNS), in which democracy, accountability, and freedom of expression will extensively use. The extensive literature review indicates that social media facilitates the freedom of expression, provides opportunities of direct political participation, improves the electoral process and increase political accountability in authoritarian countries and emerging democracies. However, an emerging democracy like Pakistan, where social media trend is up surging and accountability condition is destitute. It is highly justified to investigate the role of social media towards political accountability
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author Sadiq, Saiqa
Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah
Ajis, Mohd Na'eim
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Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah
Ajis, Mohd Na'eim
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title The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review
title_short The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review
title_full The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review
title_fullStr The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review
title_sort role of social media towards political accountability in pakistan: a literature review
publisher European Centre for Research Training and Development UK
publishDate 2018
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31477/1/GJPSA%2006%2005%202018%2039-47.pdf
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