Seminar Series
Thursday 9th May 2013, 12pm to 1pm, Room TW2 10.01B, 10th Floor, Tower 2, LSE
Speaker: Mara Malagodi
Chair: Ruth Kattumuri
The present paper investigates in a historical perspective the articulation of the concept of internal state sovereignty in modern Nepal’s constitutional domain by juxtaposing an analysis of the country’s various constitutional texts with a reading of the physical architectural structures hosting the main central state institutions in Kathmandu. The focus on the ‘internal’ notion of state sovereignty seeks to illuminate the transformation of the relationship between the state and the people in Nepal through its various constitutional configurations over the years. By adopting the approach of Historical Institutionalism, the paper seeks to demonstrate that Nepal’s inability to fully secularise political authority led to the incomplete entrenchment of popular sovereignty, ineffective executive accountability mechanisms, an exclusionary constitutional definition of the Nepali nation and an overall lack of democratic checks and balances in the country.
Dr Mara Malagodi is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Law, LSE.
Dr Ruth Kattumuri| is Co-Director of the LSE Asia Research Centre.
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