In the case of China, economical development is not associated to political reforms. All they think is to surpass economically the USA. Politics is a secondary issue. This mean that they manage politics easily. What they want is to continue producing more and more. After all, they have a huge population, about 1,3 billion people. Political reforms in a country like China is a two-edged sword.
Solon made political reforms in Athens.
The muckrakers prepared the way for political reforms by exposing corruption and then writing about it for the public to read.
Political Reforms in Russia was made by the kremlin. and now putin pretty much controls the polictal reforms in russia
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There were two reforms that occurred as a result of the Mexican revolution. These reforms were economical and political reconstruction of central authority.
You need to specify which reforms you are referring to if you want to make it possible to answer you question.
The Peoples Charter
Decriminalization
He established a limited democracy.
Locke and Rousseau were the two philosophers that led to social, political, and economic reforms.
Social reforms were as a result of the Second Great Awakening. They brought about religious reforms which led to the founding of several denominations, temperance movement, changes in the American family, educational reforms, abolition of slave trade, and the issue on women rights and empowerment. Political reforms were directly linked to the religious reforms, voting restrictions were revised.
The answer you are looking for is "Taliban", but to call them a "reform movement" is a little disengenuous. They were (and continue to be) a regressivist Islamist political organization. The reforms that they were making were to revert to medieval-types of laws.