The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka (1994-2010) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka (1994-2010) write by Dharmasoka Laksiri Jayasuriya. This book was released on 2012. The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka (1994-2010) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004
The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004 write by Laksiri Jayasuriya. This book was released on 2005. The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sri Lanka has been through turbulent times, overcome by a devastating civil war, yet able to sustain a system of parliamentary government. This study recounts a critical decade of electoral politics in Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2004, situated in the context of a militant ethnic conflict, that includes four General Elections and a Presidential election. The new politics of Sri Lanka, evident in this decade, is marked by a party system that is increasingly fractured, a politics increasingly divided over symbolic cultural issues, and the tension inherent in a mixed executive system. The coalitional dynamics of this new politics represents a decisive break with the welfarist politics of the post-independence period evolved within the Westminster system, a legacy of the colonial past. In a Postscript, Jayasuriya examines the politics of tsunami as it impacts on the critical fault lines of Sir Lankan politics in the North, East and South as well as the neo-geopolitics. This volume will be essential to anyone interested in Sri Lanka's unique experience as a third-world country with democratic political processes and instruments for over five decades.
The changing face of Sri Lankan politics
The changing face of Sri Lankan politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The changing face of Sri Lankan politics write by . This book was released on 1994. The changing face of Sri Lankan politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka
Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka write by Pradeep Peiris. This book was released on 2021-11-20. Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates. They employ informal and highly dynamic, loosely knit networks as their organisational structures at the local level. They mainly focus on mobilising voters through local political actors rather than maintaining clear party bases and membership schemes. The study highlights the salience of personalities at the national as well as local levels in forming electoral support for the parties. These individuals exploit their economic, social, and cultural capital to mobilise the most efficient network that would strengthen their party during elections. The study also analyses the emergence of two new coalition centres from within these traditional parties, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), and argues that these parties, though portraying themselves as new, have in fact retained the overall logic of the party–voter nexus by appropriating the organisational schemes and structures of their predecessors.
Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka
Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka write by Jonathan Goodhand. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period between 2001 and 2006 saw the rise and fall of an internationally supported effort to bring a protracted violent conflict in Sri Lanka to a peaceful resolution. A ceasefire agreement, signed in February 2002, was followed by six rounds of peace talks, but growing political violence, disagreements over core issues and a fragmentation of the constituencies of the key parties led to an eventual breakdown. In the wake of the failed peace process a new government pursued a highly effective ‘war for peace’ leading to the military defeat of the LTTE on the battlefields of the north east in May 2009. This book brings together a unique range of perspectives on this problematic and ultimately unsuccessful peace process. The contributions are based upon extensive field research and written by leading Sri Lankan and international researchers and practitioners. The framework of ‘liberal peacebuilding’ provides an analytical starting point for exploring the complex and unpredictable interactions between international and domestic players during the war-peace-war period. The lessons drawn from the Sri Lankan case have important implications in the context of wider debates on the ‘liberal peace’ and post conflict peacebuilding – particularly as these debates have largely been shaped by the ‘high profile’ cases such as Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. This book is of interest not only to Sri Lanka specialists but also to the wider policy/practitioner audience, and is a useful contribution to South Asian studies.
