2. THINKING ABOUT POLITICAL REFORMS
A) What is meant by political or democratic reforms?
- The suggestion & proposals about overcoming various challenges to democracy are called political reforms.
B) The ways & means of political reforms in India
- Carefully devised changes in law can help to discourage wrong political practices. Democratic reforms are carried out mainly by political activist’s parties & politically conscious citizens.
- Any legal change must carefully look at what result it will have on politics law that seeks to ban anything are not very successful in politics. Law that gives political actors incentives to do good things has more chances of working. The best laws are those which empower people to carry out democratic reform. The right to information act is a good example of a law that empowers people to find out what is happening in government and act as watchdogs of democracy.
- Democracy reforms are to be brought about principally through political practices.
- Any proposal for political reform should think not only about what is good but also about who will implement it and how.