Electoral processes and governance in South Asia
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Electoral processes and governance in South Asia
Sage Publications, 2008
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-457) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Most South Asian countries-following independence from British rule in the late nineteen forties, and in the case of Nepal, liberation from the autocracy of one family group in 1950-have enjoyed democratic systems of governance at least at some time or the other, often for extended periods of time, and, in a few cases, over the course of their post-independence history. Electoral processes have, however, been found wanting to greater or lesser extents in all these countries. Electoral malpractices are of critical concern to all South Asian countries.
It is in this background that the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy,Sri Lanka, with funding from the Ford Foundation, organized in 2002, an international conference on electoral processes and governance in South Asia. The South Asian countries selected for study were Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and papers were presented by experts in the area of electoral processes and governance in these countries. This book, based on the papers originally presented at that conference, seeks to understand electoral processes as they actually operate in South Asia, to discuss the reasons for the flaws in these systems and the degrees of success or failure in attempts at reform.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Editor's Introduction: South Asian Democracies in Transition - Dushyantha Mendis
PART ONE: COUNTRY PAPERS
Bangladesh - Muzzafer Ahmad
India - Partha S Ghosh
Nepal - Birendra Prasad Mishra, Krishna P Khanal and Nilamber Acharya
Pakistan - Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Sri Lanka - K M de Silva
PART TWO: STATUTORY FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Bangladesh - Muzaffer Ahmad
India - Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Nepal - Nilamber Acharya and Krishna P Khanal
Pakistan - Zulfikar Khalid Maluka
Sri Lanka - Dushyantha Mendis
PART THREE: GROUP DISCRIMINATION AT ELECTIONS
Bangladesh - Sohela Nazneen
India - Amit Prakash
Nepal - Hari Prasad Bhattarai
Pakistan - Rasul Bakhsh Rais
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