ICI is happy to announce this important talk we are co-sponsoring with the Development Thought and Policy Seminar Series at The New School. The event will take place Oct. 16th from 4-6pm in the University Center, #311.

Please RSVP for the event to development.newschool@gmail.com.

Rounaq Jahan will present her new book Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization (Prothoma Prokashan, 2015). The book is organized into six broad chapters, covering theoretical explanations of political parties and political development, and with a detailed look at party systems under different regimes during key phases in Bangladesh’s history. Her analysis focuses on major traits of political parties, their organizational structure and leadership dynamics, who supports the parties and intra-party democratic practice, with special attention to local level politics. She concludes this imporant study by offering her key findings from the study and making recommendations on how to address these issues and challenges. Her talk will be based on this latest book. You can read more about her new book here.

Professor Rounaq Jahan is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Bangladesh.