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The weekly news-roundup for politics in Bhutan, compiled from Kuensel Online, Business Bhutan, Bhutan Today, BBS, and The Bhutanese. BBS, 14 July 2012 31 candidates confirmed: DNT — Out of 47 seats required by a political party to contest in the 2013 elections, Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) has 31 candidates confirmed. “We are not at all disappointed with the progress we have made so far. The focus being to garner candidates, we have managed to rope in some of the best. Their integrity, sincerity of purpose and intelligence are beyond doubt and, given the chance, we pretty much feel we have the wherewithal to take this country forward,” said the party’s spokesperson, Dr. Tandin [read more...]
The weekly news-roundup for politics in Bhutan, compiled from Kuensel Online, Business Bhutan, Bhutan Observer, BBS, Bhutan Today, and The Bhutanese. Kuensel Online, 07 July 2012 Will the last Shangri-la be the lost Shangri-la? — I am a great admirer of your country for its simplicity, aesthetic sense, its rich traditions and, lately, for initiating and propagating the revolutionary idea of GNH, which has the potential to pave the path to sanity in this world fast hurling towards self destruction. Though we are still in a minority, many of us are realising that the modern world does not have sustainable solutions to any of the crises, which it has created in the last maybe [read more...] 
The weekly news-roundup for politics in Bhutan, compiled from Kuensel Online, BBS, Bhutan Observer, Business Bhutan, Bhutan Today, and The Bhutanese. Bhutan Observer, 30 June 2012 The Paradox of Development — The word ‘development’ is perhaps the most recurrent theme of social, cultural, political and economic debates. Often linked to modernity and westernization, it is blamed for separating the world into two distinct regions – the developed and developing. Some even go to the extent of comparing ‘development’ to a ‘drug’ as it subverts desire and obscures judgment. Its real meaning is therefore paradoxical and mystifying. But development also means positive change, growth and progress in society. It brings about positive transformation of life [read more...] 
Gallenkamp, Marian (2012), ‘When Agency Triumphs over Structure: Conceptualizing Bhutan’s Unique Transition to Democracy’, in Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, Working Paper No. 68. Click here to download the full-text-version of this article. Abstract: There a few absolutes in political science, but the historical observation that democracy does not just evolve without any form of struggle or demand for it, and the theoretical assumption that countries do not simply embark on the path of transition to democracy without a crisis of legitimacy for the old regime, are closest to being universally accepted. However, this paper will demonstrate how historic precedence can prove theory wrong by analyzing Bhutan’s transition to democracy. [read more...] |
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