00932pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002100040245003900061260000900100300001400109362001000123520051100133650002700644650004100671650002800712773003400740180718b2006   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aHossain, Moazzem  aBangladesh: 'Home-grown' democracy  c2006  ap.791-93.  a4 Mar  aWith the military takeover of the country in 1975, liberal democracy saw an early death in Bangladesh. Since 1991, successive phases of the country's own "home-grown" version of democracy have been unhappy political experiments, with the two main opposition elements forming alliances with marginal and more radical parties. Even as violence increasingly mires the electoral process, democracy itself has had limited success in Bangladesh, choosing to benefit and "empower " a select few. - Reproduced.   6  aDemocracy - Bangladesh  aBangladesh - Politics and government  aPolitics and government  aEconomic and Political Weekly