RBSE Class 10 Social Science Notes Civics Chapter 8 Challenges to Democracy

These comprehensive RBSE Class 10 Social Science Notes Civics Chapter 8 Challenges to Democracy will give a brief overview of all the concepts.

RBSE Class 10 Social Science Notes Civics Chapter 8 Challenges to Democracy

→ No Challenger for Democracy:
Democracy does not have a challenger but it does not mean that it does not face any challenges.

→ Challenges to Democracies:
Different countries face different kinds of challenges:

• Foundational challenge,
• Challenge of expansion.
• Challenge of deepening of democracy.

→ Democratic or Political Reforms:

• Law has important role in democratic reforms. But legal-constitutional changes by themselves cannot overcome challenges to democracy. Democratic reforms are to be carried out mainly by political activists, parties, movements and politically conscious citizens.
• Any legal change must carefully look at what results it will have on 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 cam’ out democratic reforms. For example Right to Information Act.
• 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.
• Any proposal for political reforms should think not only about what is a good solution but also about who will implement it and how.

→ Redefining Democracy:
Democracy is a form of government in which the rulers are elected by the people.

• The rulers elected by the people must take all the major decisions.
• Elections must offer a choice and fair opportunity7 to the people to change the current rulers.
• This choice and opportunity should be available to all the people on an equal basis.
• The exercise of this choice must lead to a government limited by basic rules of the constitution and citizen’s right.