Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh

Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Hasan, Mubashar

​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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-10-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811643132

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 250