Study Material and Notes of Ch 7 Outcomes of Democracy Class 10th Civics
Broad challenges to democracyFoundational challenges
• Some countries had to face the challenge of transition to the democratic style of government.
Challenge of expansion
• Countries which are already democratic face the challenge of expanding it to all social groups and regions.
Deepening of democracy
• It means strengthening those institutions that have people’s participation and control.
Devising ways and means for political reforms in India.
Reforms
• One way is legal reform, making new laws to ban undesirable things.=
Legal changes
• Legal changes sometimes have a counter-productive result.
Democratic reforms
• Democratic reforms are spread or brought about through political practice.
Political funding
Challenge
• Most of the political parties are dependent on money given by bigbusiness houses.
• The worry is that the role of money in politics will reduce whatever little voice the poor have in our democracy.
Reform proposals
• The financial accounts of every political party should be made public.
• There should be state funding of elections. Parties should be given some money by the government to meet their election expenditure.
• Citizens should be encouraged to give more donations to parties and to political workers.