The Middle Path to Democracy in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Wangchuk, Tashi

doi:10.1525/as.2004.44.6.836

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“…Mathou (2000) notes that Bhutan"s politics is quite stable and indifferent towards the robustly sweeping changes of the world in second half of the twenty century thus none of either capitalism or socialism or communism or liberalism enveloped Bhutanese polity and political culture in the sphere of their influence. Wangchuk (2004) understands it as Bhutan"s peculiar craft to adapt to the rapidly fluctuating political praxis whereas Winderl (2004) feels Bhutan strongly succeeding in course of being better nation with overall progress sufficiently underscored and underpinned through adequately appreciative stance to detain corruption unlike other nations of region.…”

Section: Sordid South-asian Situation [Discussion Of Real Situation]mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Appalling Scenario Growing Corruption and Its Obnoxious Impacts on Public Lives -With Special Reference of South-Asian Stigma

Dahal¹

2018

IJSSS

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Despite reiterated commitment from government and other stakeholders everywhere in the world, curbing corruption has been a seriously ticklish and almost next to an impossible effort, especially in south Asia. The failure to remarkably detain corruption not only left the countries financially crumbled but also transfigured them into zone of psychological and mental degradation followed with cultural erosion as well. This paper has revealed a surreal and sordid scene of growing corruption in south Asia and severe stigmatization of public life fashioned on ground of corruption. For the purpose, the author consulted plenty of relevant literature related to corruption theories, corruption realties and its suffocation to demonstrate the plague that the corruption has crowned to people. This research adopted a descriptive strategy with paradigm of interpretive analysis for building the proposition.

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Section: Sordid South-asian Situation [Discussion Of Real Situation]mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Appalling Scenario Growing Corruption and Its Obnoxious Impacts on Public Lives -With Special Reference of South-Asian Stigma

Dahal¹

2018

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“…The characteristics of the Bhutanese civil service prior to 2006 pertaining to the citizen–state relationship and the role of public participation tended to belong to both the patronage system and the TPA paradigm. The public were expected to be obedient to the state, which was perceived to be ‘vanguardist’ and ‘paternalistic’, and assumed that it knew what was best for the public (Wangchuk, , 847). Part of the reason for such an attitude can be attributed to the fact that the livelihood of the public depended on the public sector and, thus, the public did not have any incentives to challenge the public order (Sinpeng, ).…”

Section: Part 2: Empirical Case Of Bhutan's Hybrid Public Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During this period, the decision making and reporting structures in the Bhutanese civil service were deemed to have been top‐down and hierarchical (Ura, ; Wangchuk, ). A guiding principle in the Bhutanese civil service was (and continues to be) loyalty to serve the Tsawa Sum (the three main elements, which embodies the country, king and people).…”

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Explaining Hybridity in Public Administration: An Empirical Case of Bhutan's Civil Service

Ugyel

2014

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARYPublic administrations are mostly hybrid in nature with a combination of characteristics of different paradigms and models. In the first part of the paper, I use the notion of paradigms to explain a form of hybridity in public administration. The concept of paradigms in public administration is helpful in identifying a typology of the ideal types and their characteristics based on the main paradigms and models of public administration: the patronage system, the traditional public administration, the new public administration, and other emerging models such as public value management, responsive governance, and new public service. In the second part of the paper, through the trajectory of Bhutan's public administration history, we observe that its public administration exhibits characteristics that sit across the various paradigms and models of public administration. Thus, in doing so, the paper makes a significant contribution in applying the ideal type typology to explain how hybridity in public administration occurs in practice.

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“…The broader Bhutanese concern for orderliness and harmony in society and polity is clearly reflected in the structures and processes of the electoral system (Wangchuk, 2004;Evans, 2008). Furthermore, the system's designers were well aware of the volatility of democratic politics in the South Asian region and were determined to exclude the undesirable practices of their neighbours through their own electoral engineering (Togbye, 2013).…”

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Second Elections and Democratic Consolidation: the Experience of Bhutan

Turner¹,

Tshering²

2014

Asian Journal of Political Science

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This article examines the phenomenon of the second election after democratization in developing countries. Unlike the euphoria that often accompanies the immediate postdemocratization election, the second election gives clear evidence of the progress of democratic consolidation or whether the new regime has incorporated authoritarian elements and become a hybrid. To measure the democratic gains or losses that are seen in the second election, an analytical framework has been adopted comprised of three dimensions: regularity, openness and acceptability. This framework is applied to Bhutan where the second election took place in 2013. The findings are that progress was made on all three dimensions of democratization in the election although some democratic shortfalls were still evident. For Bhutan, the overarching concern for political stability is seen to have greatly affected the design and implementation of its electoral system.

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The Middle Path to Democracy in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Cited by 15 publications

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An Appalling Scenario Growing Corruption and Its Obnoxious Impacts on Public Lives -With Special Reference of South-Asian Stigma

An Appalling Scenario Growing Corruption and Its Obnoxious Impacts on Public Lives -With Special Reference of South-Asian Stigma

Explaining Hybridity in Public Administration: An Empirical Case of Bhutan's Civil Service

Second Elections and Democratic Consolidation: the Experience of Bhutan

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