Sponsor: Centre for India and South Asia Research\, Himalaya Program\, Faculty of Arts Speaker Fund< br />By: Professor Chaitanya Mishra (Department of Sociolo gy\, Tribhuvan University\, Kathmandu\, Nepal)
What are the causes an
d correlates of democracy?
The presentation will begin by reviewing ke
y theories of democracy\, corresponding to the three waves of democratizati
on in world history. It will then describe specific and evolving political
and economic features\, which were associated with the republican and democ
ratic turn in Nepal in 2006. Among others\, it will review the significance
of capitalism\, changes in the mode of generation of livelihood\, nature o
f the peasantry\, de-ruralization\, class structure\, post-1990 political s
tructure\, the Maoist ‘people’s war’ as well as the role of India and other
countries in the 2006 democratic turn. It will argue that the Nepal case h
as specific lessons for broader theories of democracy.
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