Early U.S. president abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) defined democracy as being: «Government of the people, by the people, for the people»
If this is taken seriously, democracy must be by far the most challenging form of government - both for the politicians and for the people. Over and over again, history has shown that the process of building democracy is a very complicated one. Though it's sometimes not so easy as it may seem to register voters correctly and print voting-papers, this is not enough for establishing a democracy. What is much more important and constitutes the real challenge of building democracy:
Both politicians and ordinary citizens have to learn and accept the rules of democratic governance and develop trust in democracy.