Extortion Economy, Party Sub-elites and Regime Survival: Analyzing The Political Economy of Nomination Business in Bangladesh

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Brief Overview

Party survival in Bangladesh has shifted from its dependence on mass-support to creation and fostering of party-sub-elites who maintain informal economic and political extortion on the electorates, and thereby support regime survival

Author

• Moniruzzaman Md, University of Sharjah