"This report seeks to shift the locus of discourse on democracy away from the global North to 'most of the world'. It does so by examining democratic experience

4. King vs. Parliament: Democratization in Nepal

A comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia.

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

Title first published in 2003. Chowdhury looks at the problems of democratization and development as it relates to building democratic institutions in the newly