| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Nepalese democracy should be evaluated at three levels. As an idea, all political parties see democracy completely legitimate without any condition. As a system institutionalized in the 1990 Constitution, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist does not accept it, but all the other parties such as the Congress Party, the CPN-UML, the RPP, etc. admit more or less its orthodoxy. So, both as an idea and as an institutionalized system, democracy is already as much realized in Nepal as in the western countries or Japan. However, as a practice, democracy is never functioning well in Nepal.
One of the main reasons rests on the deep seated fatalism of the national religion-Hinduism. It has prevented Nepalese people from becoming independent individuals who can practice democracy. So, without tackling with the fatalism, the democracy declared in the Constitution will be hardly realized as a practice.
From such a viewpoint, this study analyzed the contemporary Nepalese party politics and got some clues for the real democratization of Nepal.
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