Abstract
This paper, based on an empirical study, analyses the scopes, forms and nature of people’s participation in the urban local governance process in Bangladesh. It provides insight into why and how representative democracy has failed to ensure active citizen participation. In doing so, it explores the underlying socio-political, institutional and legal factors that should be taken into account when implementing interventions aimed at encouraging more inclusive participatory local governance practices. This paper argues that the institutional design of the urban local government system largely follows the political elites’ intention of consolidating political power bases. This in turn severely narrows down the scope for citizen’s participation in the governance process.
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