Mahendra Lawoti
Biographic Data
| ID | 660458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahendra Lawoti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahendra |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawoti |
| SIGNATURE | LAWOTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mahendra Lawoti is Associate Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A., and President of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. Email: [email protected]. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nepal in 2019
After decades of instability, a stable government in Nepal offered many promises, but despite progress in some sectors, the government has become less popular in the last two years. The Communist Party’s ideological ambivalence, shown by its questionable policies and activities with regard to democratization, free expression, inclusion, and governance, is probably responsible for its fading credibility among the masses
Nepal in 2018
The Communist Party of Nepal raised hope for stability and rapid development after winning a comfortable majority in local, provincial, and federal elections, but power concentration, partisanship, and factionalism prevented it from delivering, while intolerance toward dissidents, illiberal actions, and mono-ethnic policies generated criticism and reduced its popularity within a year
Secularism, or Not? Religion, State and Democracy in South Asia
Shifting Tides in South Asia
Over the last decade, Nepal has been through a surprising series of major political upheavals: ending an armed rebellion, seeing democracy disrupted and restored, going from a monarchy to a republic, and twice electing a 601-member Constituent Assembly to serve as both a regular legislature and a constitution-drafting body. Bound up with these changes have been a number of democratic reforms. If these can be extended and institutionalized, they m…
Nationalism and ethnic conflict
Problems of identity for Hill Dalits and Nepal’s nationalist project
Nepal in Transition
Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the 'People's War', Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal one. The present volume, drawing on both international and Nepali scholars and leading practitioners, analyzes the context, dynamics and key players shaping Nepal's ongoing peace process. While t…
Nepal and Bhutan in 2009
Democratic transitions in Nepal and Bhutan ran into challenges in 2009. The integration of Maoist combatants, polarization among political parties, increasing ethnic assertion, and mushrooming armed groups have delayed constitution writing in Nepal and led to political instability. In Bhutan, societal assertion against limited rights and discrimination is increasing
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal
Exclusionary Democratization in Nepal, 1990–2002
Procedural processes like periodic elections based on universal adult franchise, political rights and civil liberties may not ensure the inclusion of minorities in governance of multiethnic democracies. The Nepali case shows that exclusion from governance may in fact increase in new democracies. However, as the open polity facilitates awareness and mobilization among the disadvantaged groups, the over all effect, despite the exclusion, is democra…
Political Exclusion and the Lack of Democratisation
Going beyond examining single institutions, which is not sufficient to establish a polity's effect on exclusion, the article adapts Lijphart's majoritarian–consensus framework, which analyses ten influential institutions, to evaluate the Nepali polity. The cross-national evaluation shows that the Nepali institutions are not inclusive. As some individual Nepali institutions are exclusionary, combining individual and collective analysis establishes…
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal
Exclusionary Democratization in Nepal, 1990–2002
Procedural processes like periodic elections based on universal adult franchise, political rights and civil liberties may not ensure the inclusion of minorities in governance of multiethnic democracies. The Nepali case shows that exclusion from governance may in fact increase in new democracies. However, as the open polity facilitates awareness and mobilization among the disadvantaged groups, the over all effect, despite the exclusion, is democra…
Shifting Tides in South Asia
Over the last decade, Nepal has been through a surprising series of major political upheavals: ending an armed rebellion, seeing democracy disrupted and restored, going from a monarchy to a republic, and twice electing a 601-member Constituent Assembly to serve as both a regular legislature and a constitution-drafting body. Bound up with these changes have been a number of democratic reforms. If these can be extended and institutionalized, they m…
Political Exclusion and the Lack of Democratisation
Going beyond examining single institutions, which is not sufficient to establish a polity's effect on exclusion, the article adapts Lijphart's majoritarian–consensus framework, which analyses ten influential institutions, to evaluate the Nepali polity. The cross-national evaluation shows that the Nepali institutions are not inclusive. As some individual Nepali institutions are exclusionary, combining individual and collective analysis establishes…
Political Exclusion and the Lack of Democratisation
Going beyond examining single institutions, which is not sufficient to establish a polity's effect on exclusion, the article adapts Lijphart's majoritarian–consensus framework, which analyses ten influential institutions, to evaluate the Nepali polity. The cross-national evaluation shows that the Nepali institutions are not inclusive. As some individual Nepali institutions are exclusionary, combining individual and collective analysis establishes…
Exclusionary Democratization in Nepal, 1990–2002
Procedural processes like periodic elections based on universal adult franchise, political rights and civil liberties may not ensure the inclusion of minorities in governance of multiethnic democracies. The Nepali case shows that exclusion from governance may in fact increase in new democracies. However, as the open polity facilitates awareness and mobilization among the disadvantaged groups, the over all effect, despite the exclusion, is democra…
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal
Nepal and Bhutan in 2009
Democratic transitions in Nepal and Bhutan ran into challenges in 2009. The integration of Maoist combatants, polarization among political parties, increasing ethnic assertion, and mushrooming armed groups have delayed constitution writing in Nepal and led to political instability. In Bhutan, societal assertion against limited rights and discrimination is increasing
Nationalism and ethnic conflict
Problems of identity for Hill Dalits and Nepal’s nationalist project
Nepal in Transition
Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the 'People's War', Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal one. The present volume, drawing on both international and Nepali scholars and leading practitioners, analyzes the context, dynamics and key players shaping Nepal's ongoing peace process. While t…
Shifting Tides in South Asia
Over the last decade, Nepal has been through a surprising series of major political upheavals: ending an armed rebellion, seeing democracy disrupted and restored, going from a monarchy to a republic, and twice electing a 601-member Constituent Assembly to serve as both a regular legislature and a constitution-drafting body. Bound up with these changes have been a number of democratic reforms. If these can be extended and institutionalized, they m…
Secularism, or Not? Religion, State and Democracy in South Asia
Nepal in 2018
The Communist Party of Nepal raised hope for stability and rapid development after winning a comfortable majority in local, provincial, and federal elections, but power concentration, partisanship, and factionalism prevented it from delivering, while intolerance toward dissidents, illiberal actions, and mono-ethnic policies generated criticism and reduced its popularity within a year
Nepal in 2019
After decades of instability, a stable government in Nepal offered many promises, but despite progress in some sectors, the government has become less popular in the last two years. The Communist Party’s ideological ambivalence, shown by its questionable policies and activities with regard to democratization, free expression, inclusion, and governance, is probably responsible for its fading credibility among the masses
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nepal (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Economics (5 works)