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Party
Building in Nepal
Organization, Leadership and People
Author: Krishna Hachhethu
ISBN: 99933-10-13-1
Size: 21X14
Edition:PB
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Rs. 550.00
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About the book
Nepali political parties have recently stepped into a new phase of party
building. With the restoration of democracy in 1990, political parties,
the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal, Unified Marxist-Leninist
(CPN-UML) in particular, have undergone a number of distinct transformations:
from illegal organizations to legitimate contenders for political power;
from movement or underground organizations to open competitive parties;
from cadre based to mass based parties; from a small group of people sharing
common interests to heterogeneous organizations consisting of people of
diverse interests; and, from ideology oriented organizations to power seeking
parties. These transformations followed the changes in the parties' goals
and activities and began acquiring new characteristics i.e. growth in size,
expansion and diversification of organizational structures and networks,
de-ideologization, increase in divisive tendencies, delinking from the mass
of the people, erosion in leaders' popularity and authority, use of state
power and resources for parties' interests, patronage distribution to parties'
clients etc. Some of these new characteristics match with the three important
properties of party building - public support, organizational efficiency
and functional effectiveness. The whole gamut of party building efforts
made by the NC and the CPN-UML in the post-1990 period can be assessed on
the basis of four variables- expansion, system, harmony, and dynamism -
as indicators of the party building process in Nepal.
About the author
Krishna Hachhethu is a lecturer in political science at Centre for Nepal
and Asian Studies (CNAS), Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal.
He has been carrying out research on various aspects of Nepalese politics
for the last fourteen years. He has contributed articles to several academic
books and journals published from Nepal and abroad. |
