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Going beyond examining single institutions, which is not sufficient to establish a polity's effect on exclusion, the article adapts Lijphart's majoritarianconsensus 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 the net effect of political institutions as exclusionary. This study demonstrates that collective political institutions in new multicultural democracies can be evaluated in terms of inclusion/exclusion. Such evaluations are useful in providing the basis for reforming polities to include minorities and consolidate and deepen democracy.

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