Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism in Bangladesh

Mostofa, Shafi Md; Subedi, D. B.

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“…The respondents who are financially active, on the other hand, would be on the receiving end of the government's failure on job protection, business venture bailouts and inefficient planning prior to viral containment measures such as lockdowns 40 . With the ongoing fragile state of democracy and healthcare infrastructure in Bangladesh, 48 there is a lack of citizen trust in public health campaigns run by the government.…”

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Public opinion on COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Disruption to public lives and trust in government's immunisation performance

Biswas,

Afiaz,

Huq

et al. 2023

Health Planning & Management

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ObjectivesThe COVID‐19 pandemic has stretched Bangladesh government's capability for disaster engagement. As normalcy is interrupted, people's confidence in the government in ending the crisis needs evaluation, especially considering the past vaccination successes in Bangladesh and growing worldwide vaccine hesitancy amidst the COVID‐19 misinfodemic. This study assessed the level of public life disruption due to the pandemic at the micro‐level and how much impact it had on people's trust in the government's capacity for successful national immunisation.MethodsGiven the infectious nature of the pandemic, the study conducted an online survey of 2291 respondents, distributed proportionally across sex and income groups. We conducted bivariate analyses and fitted generalised linear models to assess disruption to respondents' lives, and their trust in the government's immunisation ability, which were measured using multiple parameters.ResultsNearly 50% of the respondents reported multifaceted disputations in their daily lives, with 90% suffering financially. Trust in the government was very low at the time of the survey as only 11.3% of respondents had faith that the government could successfully conduct a mass vaccination campaign. Rural residents and non‐earning members of families found their lives to be less disrupted. Comparatively higher income families and highly educated individuals had lesser confidence in the government's inoculation capabilities.ConclusionsFor the vaccine campaign to be successful, effective risk communication and timely display of data‐driven decision‐making efforts targeting the groups who are more sceptical of immunisation campaigns could be of significance to the Bangladesh government.

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Public opinion on COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Disruption to public lives and trust in government's immunisation performance

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Afiaz,

Huq

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Health Planning & Management

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“…In addition, it is noted here that some interviewees also informed the researcher that the current regime might use the issue of terrorism to sustain its authoritarian regime because some of the operations carried out by the security forces did not leave anybody alive. Moreover, the government has been using Islam as one of the tools sustaining the regime (Mostofa and Subedi, 2020). 2.…”

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Understanding Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh

Mostofa

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Challenges from Islamist militants have been an integral part of Bangladesh’s political landscape since the 1980s. Islamist militancy has passed through different phases of silent and active forms, drawing inspiration from conflicts in Libya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. A vast literature has dealt with Islamist militancy in Bangladesh, but very few works have shed light on who the Bangladeshi Islamist militants are and how they radicalize youths, whom they target for their secret mission of killings, and finally why youths choose to be radicalized, especially with the arrival of Islamic State and Al Qaeda in Bangladesh in 2013. The author conducted nearly 50 in-depth interviews with experts in Bangladesh and reviewed newspaper reports to answer these questions. This paper argues that middle-class youths with urban and secular backgrounds are increasingly being radicalized through cyber space, and diverse groups of people are targeted to carry out killings owing to their perceived ideological divergence. The idea of an apocalyptic Caliphate, a feeling of victimization, a disillusionment with the state and society, and personal distresses are all found to act as catalysts for Islamist radicalization in Bangladesh.

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“…Some claim this is a “real political vendetta” and thousands of JeI supporters faced judicial and extrajudicial trials without any valid reasons (Jalil 2010), and others contend that this tribunal did not follow international standards (Mollah 2020). Although Bangladesh appears to have been moving toward a one‐party state, political marginalization has become a tool for the ruling elites (Mostofa and Subedi 2020). Political marginalization was even accelerated when JeI activists started attacking police posts, government buildings, and ruling party activists in response to the court verdict against their leaders (Human Rights Watch 2013).…”

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Jama'at‐e‐Islami and Trust Building in Bangladesh

Mostofa

2021

Politics & Policy

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Bangladesh is the third‐largest Muslim country in the world where Islamic ideals inherently influence people's thought and actions. One of the Islamist political parties that has been trying to influence the Bangladeshi population is the Jama'at‐e‐Islami (JeI). The JeI is one of the oldest and largest Islamist political parties in the country and has continuously exerted its influence on the social ethos and state policy. JeI's unconditional support for Islamization and a society based on Sharia law undoubtedly attracts some sections of the Bangladeshi population. Apart from promoting an Islamist totalitarian ideology, it also maintains a requirement of religious purification for choosing its party members; a strategy that has earned a reputation as a party with robust intraparty discipline. To enhance its trust‐based relationships with its members (at both the horizontal and vertical levels), JeI helps its members through various means, including the provision of financial support, social welfare programs, and charity activities. Although the targeted population are their members, these schemes have had an impact, however minimal, on the Bangladeshi population to redress its anti‐independence stance in 1971, on the failure to send an apology message for what JeI did in 1971, and on the worldwide failure of political Islam. Related Articles Barton, Greg. 2010. “Indonesia: Legitimacy, Secular Democracy, and Islam.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 471‐496. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00244.x Marinov, Robert, and Daniel Stockemer. 2020. “The Spread of Anti‐Islamic Sentiment: A Comparison between the United States and Western Europe.” Politics & Policy 48 (3): 402‐441. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12354 Spalek, Basia. 2010. “Community Policing, Trust, and Muslim Communities in Relation to ‘New Terrorism.’” Politics & Policy 38 (4): 789‐815. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00258.x

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Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism in Bangladesh

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Public opinion on COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Disruption to public lives and trust in government's immunisation performance

Public opinion on COVID‐19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Disruption to public lives and trust in government's immunisation performance

Understanding Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh

Jama'at‐e‐Islami and Trust Building in Bangladesh

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