Demacratic reforms

All the suggestions or proposals about overcoming various challenges to democracy are called democracy reform or political reform.

• Reforming politics by making new laws.
• Carefully devised changes in law can help to discourage wrong political practices and encourage good ones.
• Any legal change must carefully look at what results it will have on politics. Sometimes the results may be counter productive. For example, many states have banned people who have more than two children from contesting panchayat elections. This has resulted in denial of democratic opportunity to many poor people and women.
• The best laws are those which empower people to carry out democratic reforms.
• The Right to Information Act is a good example of a law that empowers the people to find out what is happening in govt.
• Democratic reforms are to be brought about principally through political practice.
• Any proposal for political reform should think not only about what is a good solution but also about who will implement it and how.