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Discuss the nature of reforms of the electoral process in India and explain the further scope for reforms.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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India's electoral reforms have been incremental, reactive and largely non-legislative: the Election Commission and the Supreme Court drove most of them, and Parliament acted mainly under pressure. As a result, reforms of procedure and inclusion have gone far, while reforms that would constrain the parties themselves, on money, criminality and internal democracy, remain unfinished.

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  • Nature of the reforms: three drivers
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