Rising Authoritarianism and Challenges before Marginalized Communities in Globalized World

Power is the key ingredient to build any society, in democracy people get the chance to pick who get the power to shape their societies. Even though the important policies and decisions will be affected by the selected few and in many occasions people’s needs are being ignored by the government for sustainability of the political party that in power, then just imagine the status of marginalized sections! Marginalized are those socially excluded groups of people due to various reasons, such as age, race, gender, economic status, social status, access to education, or live in isolated places.Women and girls, indigenous people, ethnic minorities, rural dwellers, people with disabilities, migrants and refugees, LGBT community are among such systematically excluded groups from mainstream socio-political, economic, educational and cultural life. Even in democratic setup, marginalized sections of the society subjected to face various challenges for their sustainability and survival, they often struggle to gain equal access to school, jobs, housings and other developmental opportunities be it economic, social, cultural in nature but growing authoritarian syndromes in recent times within democracies globally posing dire threat to the survival of such sections many folds, not only the marginalised sections worldwide , even to the liberal democratic form of government. KEYWORD:

Authoritarianism, Democracy, Marginalization, Ideology, Institution, Hegemony