An essential and yet unfulfilled component of Harold Lasswell`s vision of policy sciences was "to improve the practice of democracy." This paper offers commentary of current strategies for achieving this goal in the context of the policy process research community. The foundation of our argument is that some strategies for seemingly improving democracy have been oversubscribed: (1) Relying on policy implications; (2) Relying on normative theories; and (3) Relying on Political Advocacy. And other strategies have been undersubscribed: (1) Teaching; (2) Shaping the academic community; and (3) Participatory policy process research. We conclude that different objectives of policy process compared to policy analysis research lend themselves to different strategies for improving democracy. We recommend that the policy process researchers should broaden their strategies for achieving Lasswell`s vision of improving democracy. Ultimately the extent that policy process research impacts democracy is an empirical question that deserves the attention on our research agendas.