NEPAL’S DEMOCRATIC BREAKDOWN OF 1960: SYSTEM, SEMI-SYSTEM AND ANTI-SYSTEM ACTORS
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https://doi.org/10.46827/ejpss.v8i1.1907Schlagwörter:
Nepal, democratic breakdown, political actors, political pressure, political significanceAbstract
Nepal started its democratic journey in 1951. However, King Mahendra ended the journey in 1960. Based on the political actor model of democratization, this article concludes that the monarchy acted as the semi-system actor from 1951 to 1960, as it did not abide by constitutional frameworks and took advantage of weak system actors to terminate democracy. Despite the peaceful participation in the politics during and after the democratic movement, the Communist Party of Nepal wanted to replace democracy with communism and was the anti-system political actor. The party was not politically significant, as it had just five seats in the parliament and was organizationally weak. Therefore, this article also finds that the party did not play an important role for the democratic breakdown of 1960.Literaturhinweise
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