Title: Democracy, Bureaucracy and Partisan Politics in South Asia
Subtitle: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh
Subject Classification:  Politics and Government, Global South Studies, Society and Culture  
BIC Classification: JPHV, JPF, JPA
BISAC Classification: POL017000, POL006000, POL040020
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Dec 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-174-7
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-175-4

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Description

Modern governments are run by two actors: elected party politicians and appointed official bureaucrats. They often have an uneasy partnership, in the sense that they belong to two distinctive categories as policy actors, bound together in a “love-hate relationship”. According to liberal democratic values, partisan politics are the administration’s inevitable rival. When these two contrasting actors align together, and public administration is involved in partisan politics, it creates a problem for democratic governance. Throughout the world, both liberal and transitional democracies are at risk because of this collusion between partisan politics and public administration.

South Asia in general and Bangladesh in particular has been facing this problem as a transitional democracy. In the last four decades, Bangladesh has been trying to build and rebuild democracy, but this has not been possible due to either the conflicting nature or the over-alignment of politicians and public administration, and the partisan involvement of bureaucrats. Keeping this framework in mind, this study addresses the evolving nature of the nexus between partisan politics and public administration and its implications for democratic deformation and backsliding in Bangladesh, with an empirical perspective.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Muhammad Sayadur Rahman is a Professor of Public Administration at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. He earned his PhD from Heidelberg University, Germany. With more than two decades of experience in academia, he has developed a significant body of work focused on governance, politics, and public sector management.

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