Author: Ali Riaz | Journal of Democracy

Ali Riaz is professor of politics and government at Illinois State University. In 2013, he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His books include Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh (2010).

April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2

Shifting Tides in South Asia: Bangladesh’s Failed Election

Ali Riaz

After two decades of elections that produced a number of alternations in power, an impasse over “caretaker government” crippled the 2014 contest and has made single-party rule all too real a prospect.