symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Peter Ronald deSouza, Professor and Senior Fellow, Co-Director, Lokniti-programme of Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• IS PAKISTAN A DEMOCRACY?
  S. Akbar Zaidi,  social scientist, Karachi

• IRAN'S TRYST WITH DEMOCRACY
  Ali Paya, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National Research Institute for Science Policy (Iran); and Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK

• HAS DEMOCRACY STALLED IN INDONESIA?
  Olle Törnquist, Professor of Political Science and Development Research, University of Oslo; and Co-Director of Demos, The Indonesian Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Oslo

• THE INDIAN COMMONSENSE OF DEMOCRACY
  Peter Ronald deSouza, Professor and Senior Fellow, Co-Director, Lokniti-programme of Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• SRI LANKA: DEMOCRACY AND THE HEGEMONY OF THE FRINGE
  Jayadeva Uyangoda, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Colombo, Colombo

• PEOPLE POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES
  Carolina G. Hernandez, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of the Philippines, Quezon City

• DEMOCRACY IN NEPAL: FOUR MODELS 
  David N. Gellner, University Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford, UK

• BANGLADESH AT A CROSSROADS
  Rounaq Jahan, Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York

• CAN CHINA BECOME A DEMOCRACY?
  Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Co-Editor, 'Journal of Democracy', California

• 'INSTALLING' DEMOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN
  Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Director, CERI Program on Peace and Human Security, l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris; and Michael Schoiswohl, currently working as a Human Rights Expert at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, Geneva 

• COMMENT
  Building Trust in Government by Gowher Rizvi, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge

• bOOKS
  Reviewed by Vasanthi Srinivasan, Harsh Sethi, Ashok Mitra and Jyotirmaya Sharma

• IN MEMORIAM
  N.H. Antia 1922-2007

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