Author : Arild Engelsen Ruud
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9789811643132
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Book Synopsis Masks of Authoritarianism by : Arild Engelsen Ruud
Download or read book Masks of Authoritarianism written by Arild Engelsen Ruud and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book investigates how life is affected by the increasingly authoritarian regime in Bangladesh.Earlier a flawed but real electoral democracy, over the last several years Bangladesh has been characterised as a ‘hybrid regime’ in The Economist’s Democracy Index. Today it is a country in which law still rules and leaders are still chosen – but only on paper. The uniqueness of this book is not in defining regime type or investigating trajectories. It is in its efforts to study how these changes affect everyday life. All chapters are based on intimate knowledge of a field, on first-hand experience, and on interviews and ethnography. This book will interest political scientists and scholars of Bangladesh, the Islamic world and beyond, with findings of broad relevance to hybrid regimes.