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What do you understand by ‘counter-productive law’?

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If there is any legal change, it must carefully look at what results it will have on politics. Sometimes the results may be counter productive. For example, many states have banned people who have more than two children from contesting panchayat elections. This has resulted in denial of political opportunity to many poor and women which was not intended.

Generally laws that seek to ban something are not successful in politics, instead laws that give political actors incentives to do good things are more successful. The best laws are those which empower people to carry out democratic reforms. The Right to Information Act is a good example of law that empowers people to find out what is happening in the government and act as watchdogs of the democracy.

Such law helps to control corruption and supplements the existing laws that banned corruption and imposed strict penalties.

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