...Henry F. Carey © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Criminal Injustice and Mimic Democratization in Pakistan Henry F. Carey Pakistan, what one scholar calls “one of the most century of existence. Imran Khan, the star...

...Lungisile Ntsebeza © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Democratization and Traditional Authorities in the New South Mica Lungisile Ntsebeza Introduction cerned...

...Yusuf Sarfati Democratic Values in the Muslim World Fattah Moataz A. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2006 v + 209 pp., $23.50 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Mocha’s commercial ties. The Merchant Houses of Trade...

... consequential civil society are not fully developed. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Civil Society and Democratic Change in the Arab World: Promises and Impediments Mohamed Zayani...

...Saeed Shafqat Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 2, (Fall, 1990). Political Culture of Pakistan: A Case of Disharmony between Democratic Creed and Autocratic Reality Saeed Shafqat. Political culture can be defined as a set...

...Rajni Kothari © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) Caste, Communalism and the Democratic Process Rajni Kothari In the mindless drift from a pursuit of consensus a social phenomenon, it is considered strange and out of a highly...

... or Democratic Socialism?”, South African Labour Bulletin , 16 : 6 . Callinicos , A. ( 1992 . Between Apartheid and Capitalism (London: Bookmarks). Cohen , R. ( 1991 . Contested Domains (London: Zed Books). Collins , D. ( 1994a ) “The Workers Voice in Parliament?”, South African...

...Ila Pathak Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1W1). The Legal Machinery and Its Inability to Guarantee Democratic Rights Ila Pathak Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been used by supporting evidence to report...

... in lessness and hunger. Not least of all, we fully expect the South Asia: The Road to grass-roots struggles to intensify, and for the repression of these struggles to continue to intensify. The relentless logic Democratic...

...Forough Jahanbakhsh Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Asef Bayat Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xxi + 291 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...

...Kamilia Al-Eriani Abstract This article demonstrates how protests as modes of political action are not only about claiming public spaces and democratic rights. Essentially, they articulate a mode of claiming corporeal democratic bodies cultivated and inhabited by revolutionaries in their attempts...

...Alyssa Miller Abstract Reconciliation is a central goal of transitional justice. Yet, its importance for democratization can give reconciliation a coercive edge, pressuring victims to abandon legitimate grievances for the good of the nation to come. This article considers struggles over popular...

... Crime Pays —demonstrate that to make sense of that paradox, one needs to go beyond the dominant legal/technocratic understanding of corruption as either private acts of illegality or failures of the civic democratic process. Thinking further with the insights offered by those books, the article sugg...

... and political engagement via civil society in mainstream scholarship. It argues for a productive synthesis of Indian and African postcolonial theories of democratic agency and political practice by analyzing the possibilities and limitations of Partha Chatterjee's notion of “political society” relative to local...

... the Basic Democracies scheme rationalized the state’s negation of wider channels of democratic participation by nationalizing the parochial as an expression of the true “genius” of the Pakistani people. Such attempts to fragment and reassign the experience of national solidarity, he contends, drew...

... has conditioned the democratic relationship between the Sri Lankan state and the domain of the social. The article introduces the political rationality that governs this relationship with the moment of its apotheosis, namely the enactment of Sri Lanka’s first Republican Constitution and the apogee...

...Francis Cody Some concept of mass publicity is foundational for a number of theories of democratic self-determination, but the subject of publicity is radically dependent on technologies of representation for its own self-identity. Research on newspapers and the public sphere is valuable because...

...Ornit Shani Shani's article examines a key aspect of the rupture from colonial rule in the making of independent India, which was critical to its process of democratization. This undertaking was the preparation of the first elections on the basis of universal suffrage. Implementing and planning...

... the government has been trying to sell for the Western “democratic” and free world an image of a civilized “enlightened” government, combating its “dark” opponents, it has itself reinvented practices of harshly disciplining the unruly. By promoting enlightenment from the top, the government attempts to promote...