Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia

"Revised version of papers presented at the International Conference on Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia, held at Colombo in June 2002."
"Revised version of papers presented at the International Conference on Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia, held at Colombo in June 2002."@en
"Most South Asian countries?following independence from British rule in the. late nineteen forties, and in the case of Nepal, liberation from the autocracy. of one family group in 1950?have enjoyed democratic systems of governance. at least at some time or the other, often for extended periods of time, and, in. a few cases, over the course of their post-independence history. Electoral processes. have, however, been found wanting to greater or lesser extents in all these countries. Electoral malpractices are of critical concern to all South Asian countries. It is in this background that the Inte."@en