The Role of Civil Society in the Political Process Of Bangladesh (1990-2015)

Abstract

This study is a vigorous attempt to unveil the role of civil society in the political process of Bangladesh from 1990-2015. It has been prepared and submitted for the fulfillment of the requirement of the M. Phil. Degree from the Department of Political Science under the faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Dhaka for the session of 2015-2016. Bangladesh has a glorious past of Civil Society. The people of this country are seen to be more prone to public good than self-interest. But now a day this tradition of society is deviated. People of the society become self-centered. Nevertheless, many negative practices have been introduced in society with the deterioration of culture and society. This study tries to show the role of civil society in the political process of Bangladesh. Therefore, since the civil society can play the major role for smooth functioning of political process, this study can includes recent knowledge through its literature and field work. For discussing the role of civil society in the political process of Bangladesh, I have conceptualized the notion and divided the perspective of civil society in the political process of Bangladesh in seven different chapters. In all this chapters, I have tried to show the major issues of Bangladesh politics from 1990-2015. In chapter 3, I have discussed elaborately the role of civil society in the political process of Bangladesh from 1990 to 2015. In this chapter, I have also discussed democracy and democratic institution building process. In chapter 4, I have tried to discuss what role civil society have played in social movements, protests and public issues from 1990 to 2015 and I have taken some social and political movements of that time. In chapter 5, I have discussed the major problem of civil society that is politicization. Politicization of civil society is a great problem in Bangladesh. Politicization in democracy is good. But extreme politicization of civil society affects a society very negatively. It hampers their responsibility and also degrades their morality. In chapter 6, I have discussed the findings of my study. Through structured interviews and strong analyses I have collected and analyzed the data. I have assembled some observations of the people who can be termed as civil society and I have found the observations by the way of interviews and analyses. However I have drawn a closure of my whole study with a conclusion at the end. The study has employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The data are collected by a rigorous questionnaire. Here is used descriptive, critical and practical analysis of found data. Analytical process for describing the data also has been employed. The final chapter is mainly the findings of the research questions.