Habib Zafarullah, Noore Alam Siddiquee
Michael Buehler
The Arab Spring has reinvigorated debate about the impact of Islamist groups on policymaking, particularly the adoption and implementation of Islamic law (shari'a), in democratizing, Muslim-majority countries.Most studies on shari'a policymaking emphasize the causal primacy of Islamist parties opera...
M. Rashiduzzaman
Research Article| November 01 1994 The Liberals and the Religious Right in Bangladesh M. Rashiduzzaman M. Rashiduzzaman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1994) 34 (11): 974–990. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645348 Views Icon Views Article contents Fi...
Md Saidul Islam
More than 85% of Bangladesh's 150 million people are Muslims. Bangladesh earns its title as "the third largest Muslim country of the world" following Indonesia and Pakistan because of its enormous size of Muslim population. Their religion, Islam, is however becoming a "minority" day by day. While Mu...
Meghna Sabharwal, Evan M. Berman
Public Administration in South Asia, Meghna Sabharwal and Evan M. Berman India History and Context of Public Administration in India, R.K. Mishra Public Policy Processes and Citizen Participation in India, Dolly Arora Intergovernmental Relations in India, Rekha Saxena Public Service Ethics in India,...
Abul Fazl Huq
BANGLADESH, which emerged as an independent state in December I97I, after having witnessed one of most brutal blood-baths in modern history,' gave herself a full-fledged constitution November 4, Ig72, only 325 days after her liberation. On December 22, I97I, seat of government had been transferred f...
Ishtiaq Hossain, Noore Alam Siddiquee
Abstract In recent years, Islam has emerged dramatically in the politics and news headlines of the world. As elsewhere in the Muslim World, the impact of the Islamic resurgence movement is clearly visible in contemporary Bangladesh. Organized and led by Ghulam Azam until very recently, the Jamaat is...
Masdar Hilmy
<p>This paper seeks to analyze how the program of deradicalization in Indonesia is approached, understood and treated by radical Islamists. This paper argues that the deradicalization program in this country has invited controversies, criticisms and even backlash from radical Islamists on the ...
Arafat Hosen Khan
The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Constitution of Bangladesh. It traces the sociopolitical and legal context of its birth in the aftermath of a violent Independence War, through to the seventeen amendments to date as Bangladesh evolved through military coups and dictatorship...
Awal Hossain Mollah
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of judicial activism as a golden mean approach of judiciary in protecting and promoting human rights from illegitimate interferences of government. With this aim, several case studies have been done on verdicts of higher judiciary in Bangla...
Harold Sougato Baroi, Shawkat Alam
Over the years, lack of transparency and accountability has become a common feature in the delivery of public services in Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s introduction of The Right to Information Act 2009 (‘RTI’) was intended to achieve greater access to government information and to promote better public t...
Alma Arif, Irfan Ridwan Maksum
This research analyze the practice of irrigation, education, and free trade governance linked with functional decentralization concept in Indonesia’s decentralization policy frame. This research use constructivist approach and qualitative-descriptive method. Research result find several factors that...
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
The original 1972 Constitution of Bangladesh incorporated a provision for secularism. The 1979 Fifth Amendment deleted the principle of secularism and incorporated Bismillah-ar-Rahman-ar-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful). The 1988 Eighth Amendment declared Islam to be the of...
Michael Buehler
The Arab Spring has reinvigorated debate about the impact of Islamist groups on policymaking, particularly the adoption and implementation of Islamic law (shari’a), in democratizing, Muslim-majority countries. Most studies on shari’a policymaking emphasize the causal primacy of Islamist parties oper...
A N M Zakir Hossain
The study aims to identify the role of local government and its transformation in response to the COVID-19. It also shows how local governments extended the scope of accountability and transparency to strengthen democracy. The study followed the social survey method and collected data online through...