Power-sharing establishes a more equitable balance of power, makes negotiation an attractive alternative to violence, promotes and expands citizen participation in the political process, strengthens voter confidence in open methods of choosing government, and encourages a competitive political environment. Power Sharing: Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy. A democratic rule involves sharing power with those affected by its exercise, and who have to live with its effects. All communities, social groups get their say in the governance. People have a right to be consulted on how they are to be governed. A legitimate government is one where citizens acquire a stake in the system; through participation. We need power sharing as: Power sharing helps in reducing the conflict between various social groups. Hence, power sharing is necessary for maintaining social harmony and peace. Power sharing helps in avoiding the tyranny of majority. The tyranny of majority not only destroys the minority social groups but also the majority social group.

3. Introduction
Power-sharing establishes a more equitable balance of power,
makes negotiation an attractive alternative to violence, promotes
and expands citizen participation in the political process,
strengthens voter confidence in open methods of choosing
government, and encourages a competitive political environment.
Power Sharing: Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy. A
democratic rule involves sharing power with those affected by its
exercise, and who have to live with its effects. All communities,
social groups get their say in the governance. People have a right to
be consulted on how they are to be governed. A legitimate
government is one where citizens acquire a stake in the system;
through participation.We need power sharing as:
 Power sharing helps in reducing the conflict between various
social groups. Hence, power sharing is necessary for maintaining
social harmony and peace.
 Power sharing helps in avoiding the tyranny of majority.The
tyranny of majority not only destroys the minority social groups
but also the majority social group.

4. Introduction
 People’s voice forms the basis of a democratic government.
Hence, power sharing is essential to respect the spirit of
democracy.
 The avoiding conflict in society and preventing majority tyranny
are considered as prudential reasons for power sharing.
Maintaining the spirit of democracy is considered as the moral
reason for power sharing.These are the different forms of power
sharing:
 Power sharing in different organs of government
 Power sharing at different levels of government
 Power sharing among social groups
 Power sharing among various pressure groups

5. In India

6. PowerSharing
In India
 India is a democratic country. People of India elect their
representative through direct franchise.After that, people’s
representatives elect the government to make or amend rules &
regulations and to carry out day to day functioning of governance.
 One basic principle of democracy is that people are the source of
all political power. In a democracy, people rule themselves
through institutions of self-governance. In a good democratic
government, due respect is given to diverse groups and views that
exist in a society. Everyone has a voice in the shaping of public
policies.Therefore, it follows that in a democracy political forms of
power sharing should be distributed among as many citizens as
possible.

7. In Political
Parties

8. PowerSharing
In Political
Parties
Power is also shared among different political parties. For example:
when no party gets absolute in the elections different parties come
together and form a coalition government and share power. Interest
groups such as traders, farmers workers also have a share in the
government power either through participating in governmental
communities or bringing influence in the decision making process.
Power is also shared among different social groups such as the
religious and linguistic groups.This type of arrangement is done to
give space in the government and administration to diverse social
groups.
Power sharing among various political parties is more apparent for
most of the people. Usually the largest political party or the largest
political coalition becomes the ruling party.The other parties form
the opposition.While opposition is not in power, it is responsible for
seeing to it that the ruling party functions as per the wishes of the
people. Heads of various committees comes from various political
parties; which is another way of sharing power among different
political parties.

9. In schools

10. PowerSharing
InSchools
As many organizational systems writers observe, schools are open
systems.To at least some degree, they interact with their
environment. One important element in that environment is the
formally-constituted bodies representing the local community. In
the case of an overseas international school, this body is usually
termed "the Board of Directors" or simply "the Board."This body
may include the actual owners of the school, important individuals
within the community, parents, embassy officials, and important
local persons. International school boards face two unusual
conditions. First they work in a multi-national environment in which
exists considerable ambiguity as to how "American" their schools
should be and endure frequent turn-overs of membership.

11. PowerSharing
InSchools
Private schools, typically, have somewhat similar boards. Private
school boards refer to members to "trustees."The boards of NAIS
(NationalAssociation of Independent Schools) schools have
between ten and twenty-five members.The NEA school board
meets the definition of a "governing board" one of four categories
into whichCarver (1990) divides private school boards. In the case of
a governing board, to follow Carver, key decisions rest in the board’s
hands. NEA’s board, as is typical of private school boards (Stanton
1989), includes alumni, parents of former students, corporate
leaders, and wealthy benefactors.

12. PowerSharing
InSchools
In the cases of the international schools, board members usually hold
a financial stake in the success of the school, whether through tuition
or stewardship of institutional funds, and represent this funding as
well as the local people.This arrangement parallels that of the board
of directors of a company or, of course, American school boards,
which also represents local constituencies and their dollars.The
DoDDs schools represent something of a special case in any
discussion ofAmerican schools but particularly in terms of the
external environment.The U.S. government, instead of any local
community, pays for these schools.They boast no local school boards,
though they fall subject to the oversight of a number of governmental
agencies (Fruit, 1992).As a result, the closest DoDDs equivalent to the
international school board, the "SAC" ("Site-Area Council"), represents
the local community in an advisory capacity with only the most distant
claim to representing "tax-payer dollars."

13. PowerSharing
InSchools
This study posits that the locus of decision-making varies considerably in
three different settings: the international school, the private school, and
the DoDDs high school. If, indeed, the "buck" stops in different places in
these different settings, this suggests that those chosen for these
positions need to possess a different set of skills.To put this another way,
an individual suited to direct an international school might flounder at a
DoDDs school or a private school and the reverse. Having established this
open system framework, this study will next turn to characterize the
types of relations that might effect a school through its connection with
the external environment.

14. PowerSharing
InSchools
An example I like to use are small and large high schools.When a
high school has a small number of students there is a greater
opportunity to gain positions in student council, captain of a sports
team or leader of some type of extracurricular.The larger the
school, the less opportunity because there is so much more
competition to gain these positions and there are handfuls of
individuals who are left to follow. Even when re-elections occur,
there is a much greater likelihood you will end up a follower again
because there is so much more competition

15. At Homes

16. PowerSharing
In homes
 Power sharing is important to give others an opportunity to reap
the many benefits of leadership.When only one person is in
power, only one person has there say and only one person can gain
the benefits.These benefits might include increased self esteem,
self reliance, socialization and even achievement. In addition to
sharing the wealth, power sharing allows others to become good
followers because what good is a leader without followers.

17. PowerSharing
In homes
 Power in healthy families is shared.This means that family
decisions and rules are made with the input of each person. It is
not necessary for the father or mother to always dictate orders.
Each family member is allowed to express opinions, generate
ideas, and make suggestions.The family still needs a leader, but
no one person dominates all of the time.
 This type of “power sharing” gives freedom to every member by
allowing each individual to express himself or herself.And this
sharing has many positive results:
 Feeling of trust and cooperation develop
 The cohesiveness of the family becomes stronger
 A greater number of solutions are offered that can contribute to
more effective decision making.

18. InCommunities

19. PowerSharing
in communities
 Power is usually shared in community between the various
corporations and agencies. It can also be shared through families,
community procedures and some peer organizational
frameworks.The sharing of power is basically a way or technique
of living with others within the community. .
 Power may also be shared among different social groups. In a
diverse country; like India; there are various social, linguistic and
caste groups and power is shared among each group. For
example; people from the minority communities, OBCs, and SC &
ST are given reservation so that there could be adequate
representation for them in the government machinery.