Wednesday, March 11th, 2026

Nepal politics: No Panacea In Sight

KATHMANDU: Gong and Lips (2009) have noted that elections, especially at the national level, constitute…

Is Nepal losing democracy?

Ancient democracy had developed around the fifth century BC in the Greek city-states. Although we…

Democratic and Egalitarian Discourse

All political changes may not necessarily produce the intended results nor provide useful and pragmatic…

The Democratic Dilemma

Over three decades of vigorous study, one of the major political breakthroughs that has been…

Pluralism and foreign policy

One of the attractions of a federal system is to ensure security and equality for…

Pluralism and Foreign Policy

One of the attractions of a federal system is to ensure for its citizens’ security…

Pluralism and Foreign Policy

If one accepts the premise that a democratic regime provides a system where free and…

Nepal: Toward a plural democracy?

Liberty, equality, individualism, democracy, and rule of law propose for reconciliation-based politics and a political…

Nepal: Toward a plural democracy (II)

While assessing the process of democratization, the crisis of Nepalese governance goes much deeper. However,…

Nepal: Toward a plural democracy?

The wave of political reforms that swept across the world during the last four decades…

Prospects of democratic governance in Nepal

Most noteworthy in recent decades in studies on politics and public affairs have shifted from…

Overshadowing essential characteristics of democracy

As an exhaustive examination of the Nepalese case would indicate, a different kind of crisis…