Challenges to Democracy
The ways for political reforms in India are:
(i) The best way to bring out reform in political system is to adopt a proper constitutional basis according to the public opinion or mandates.
(ii) There should be people's participation in the politics from grass-root to superstructure level. The best example is Panchayati Raj System and its election processes are now a law.
(iii) It is very tempting to think of legal ways of reforming politics, to think of new laws to ban undesirable things. Carefully devised changes in law can help to discourage wrong political practices and encourage good ones.
Generally, laws that seek to ban something are not very successful in politics. Laws that give political actors incentives to do good things have more chances of working. 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 government and act as watchdogs of democracy. Such a law helps to control corruption.
(iv) Democratic reforms are to be brought about principally through political practice. Therefore, the main focus of political reforms should be on ways to strengthen democratic practice. The most important concern should be to increase and improve the quality of political participation by ordinary citizens.
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Which one of the following challenges involves in making the transition to democracy and then instituting democratic government?
The deepening of democracy involves
Challenge of expansion in democracy includes ___________
Ensuring greater power to local governments, extension of federal principle to all the units of the federation, inclusion of women and minority groups is covered under __________.
Which of the following challenge is faced by every democracy in one form or another.
Which of the following represents a challenge to democracy?
How can the institution that help people's participation and control be strengthened?
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