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Challenges of Democratic Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Authors : Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik, Tek Nath Dhakal

Published in: In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

The history of public governance in South Asia has had a chequered history characterized by stability based on the paternalistic culture of the region coupled with formalism introduced during the British colonial rule. More recently, the state led governance that dominated pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods is in the retreat in the new-liberal, market led globalized world. Planned economy which once characterized some South Asian nations such as Bangladesh in the early 1970s and India until the 1980s has been replaced by private initiatives, liberalization, export centered growth, and market-oriented reforms.

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Recently, the ruling party in Bangladesh the Awami League (AL) proposed to the Bangladesh Election Commission that expelled candidates from the party must not be allowed to contest elections at least for two consecutive elections. This is to avoid split of votes and reducing the chance of rebel candidates within the party to run election independently and cause defeat to the candidate nominated by the party. This move by the party in power demonstrates that political parties can even advance undemocratic decision to disqualify a candidate (not accused of any criminal offence) to run election in the multiparty democratic system. This testifies again how important it is to win elections.
 
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“Every city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure. Each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable” (South Asia Mail blog 2012).
 
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Metadata
Title
Challenges of Democratic Governance in South Asia and Beyond
Authors
Ishtiaq Jamil
Steinar Askvik
Tek Nath Dhakal
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-7371-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-7372-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7372-5_14

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