proreform
Supporting systemic improvement
Proreform means favoring or supporting reform—changes to improve a system, institution, or policy.
The term appears in political and policy contexts: proreform candidates, proreform legislation, a proreform coalition within the party.
Often hyphenated as pro-reform.
Pleading for a cause
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- amendmentChange to official text
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
liberalization · activism · lobbying · bipartisan · policy · grassroots · movement · initiative
Favoring reform and innovation
- equalitySame status for all
- justiceFair treatment under law
- inclusionBeing made part
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
emancipation · suffrage · abolition · decriminalization · welfare · humanitarian · desegregation · advocacy
Rearranging an existing framework
- overhaulComplete systematic repair
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- bureaucraticExcessively procedural
- administrativeRelated to organization management
streamlining · efficiency · accountability · transparency · decentralization · reorganization · governance · systemic
Removing governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
- fiscalOf public revenue
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
liberalization · stimulus · taxation · trade · monetary · neoliberal · IMF · subsidy
advocacy
Pleading for a cause
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- amendmentChange to official text
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
modernization · liberalization · activism · lobbying · bipartisan · policy · grassroots · movement · initiative · campaign
progressive
Favoring reform and innovation
rights · emancipation · suffrage · abolition · decriminalization · welfare · humanitarian · desegregation · advocacy · empowerment
restructuring
Rearranging an existing framework
- overhaulComplete systematic repair
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- bureaucraticExcessively procedural
administrative · streamlining · efficiency · accountability · transparency · decentralization · reorganization · governance · systemic · procedural
deregulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
- fiscalOf public revenue
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
austerity · liberalization · stimulus · taxation · trade · monetary · neoliberal · IMF · subsidy · tariff
proreformantireform
Opposed to institutional change
conservative · reactionary · antichange · traditionalist · regressive
reform, reformed, reformer, reforming, reformation, reformist, reformatory, reformative