Administrative Culture and Incidence of Corruption in Bangladesh: A Search for the Potential Linkage

Haque, Sk. Tawfique M.; Mohammad, Sheikh Noor

doi:10.1080/01900692.2013.791308

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“…As a result, violence against such communities have increased significantly since the second UPR cycle. The wider literature suggests (e.g., Haque & Mohammad, 2013;Paksha, 2010) that corruption is a major factor in the malaise. As one account notes, 'Bangladesh's current endemic corruption situation is deeply rooted in its recent history and the political process it has gone through … the political parties have given way to the military governments and military-backed civil government, who ignored people's participation and transparency' (Rahman, 2018, p. 315).…”

Section: Authorities' Failure To Uphold Religious Freedommentioning

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Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh

Chaney

Sahoo

2020

Journal of Civil Society

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Against the international backdrop of rising religious tensions, this article explores contemporary civil society views on religious freedom in Bangladesh. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organizations' (CSOs) submissions to the United Nations' third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 2013-18. It provides a timely assessment of Bangladesh's fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom, and shows how the politicization of religion and the resultant conflict between 'secularism' and 'extremism' have been fuelling inter-communal tensions and religious intolerance. In particular, CSOs' UPR submissions present powerful accounts of the principal human rights pathology affecting the country today, religious-based violence. This is accompanied by a narrative of police malpractice, judicial failings, discrimination, oppression and incitement. A further key finding is 'situated knowledge' or first-hand accounts of legal restrictions and government repression of civil society organizations. Consonant with the classical work of liberal theorists, we argue that unprecedented importance now attaches to safeguarding civil society criticality in order to defend religious freedom and uphold human rights in the Republic.

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Section: Authorities' Failure To Uphold Religious Freedommentioning

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Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh

Chaney

Sahoo

2020

Journal of Civil Society

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“…In their accounts of maladministration, CSOs’ placed emphasis on police failure to protect human rights defenders (HRDs). As a broad literature attests (e.g., Haque & Mohammad, 2013; Paksha, 2010), corruption is a major factor in the malaise. As one account notes, ‘Bangladesh’s current endemic corruption situation is deeply rooted in its recent history and the political process it has gone through… the political parties have given way to the military governments and military-backed civil government, who ignored peoples’ participation and transparency’ (Rahman, 2018, p. 315).…”

Section: Contemporary Pathologies In Upholding Lgbt+ Rightsmentioning

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Civil Society Organisations and LGBT+ Rights in Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis

Chaney

Sabur

Sahoo

2020

Journal of South Asian Development

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This article explores civil society organizations’ (CSOs) views on the contemporary situation of LGBT+ people in Bangladesh. It is a lacuna requiring attention because of the country’s poor and deteriorating equality and human rights record. Here we analyse the level of attention to prevailing human rights violations and apply critical frame analysis to the corpus of CSOs’ submissions to the United Nations third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 2013–2018. These reveal how a series of key pathologies—including, violence, intimidation and discrimination—affect the lives of LGBT+ people. The wider significance of this study lies in highlighting that, while not a replacement for justiciable rights, the discursive processes offered by the UPR are of key significance in seeking to advance LGBT+ rights in countries like Bangladesh where oppression combines with extremism and political elites’ refusal to embrace equality in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation.

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“…Bangladesh administrative culture is very much centralized. The central body does not want to disseminate power among the local officials as they are main contenders of the power [11]. Such practice has been carrying out from the birth of the Bangladesh.…”

Section: Bureaucratic Culture and Failure Of New Public Management Inmentioning

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Traditional Bureaucratic Culture as an Impeding Factor in Implementing New Public Management in Bangladesh

Rahman

2018

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Since the independence in 1971, Bangladesh has made a commendable progress in all sector of the state in its 47 years of journey. Over this period it has come across to a long way in administrative reforms under different political regimes. Most of the reforms in the administrative section could not achieve the desired results due to different reasons. This paper particularly tries to find out how traditional bureaucratic culture has been an impeding force on the way of implementing New Public Management in Bangladesh. Public servants have been a strong body in Bangladesh due to different political incidents. Basically military backed governments at different times were highly dependent on bureaucratic administration. Such political practice has grown a peculiar culture of reform resistant behavior among administrative members. As a result, they are not enough open to new changes in the administrative system and thus impeding the implementation of new administrative reforms frequently as there remain uncertainties of power distribution.

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Administrative Culture and Incidence of Corruption in Bangladesh: A Search for the Potential Linkage

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh

Civil society and the contemporary threat to religious freedom in Bangladesh

Civil Society Organisations and LGBT+ Rights in Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis

Traditional Bureaucratic Culture as an Impeding Factor in Implementing New Public Management in Bangladesh

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