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Pramod k. Kantha

Job Title

Associate Professor, Political Science

Organization

Wright State University

Country

United States

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

Chapters in Books:

“Corruption and Governance in South Asia,” in Charles Funderburk Ed. Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective Ashgate Publishing, London, 2012, pp. 117-140.
“Maoist-Madhesi Dynamics and Nepal’s Peace Process,” a book chapter in Mahendra Lawoti and Anup Kumar Pahari Ed. The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal, Revolution in the Twenty-first Century. London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 156-172.

“The BJP and Indian Democracy: Elections, Bombs and Beyond,” a book chapter in Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace ed. Indian Politics and the 1998 Election. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 340-364.

“Transition from Authoritarianism in South Asia: Pakistan’s Renewed Hope for Democracy,” a book chapter in John P. Lovell and David E. Albright, Ed, To Sheathe the
Sword: Civil-Military Relations in the Quest for Democracy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 98-115.

Journal Articles

“Nepal, Bhutan 2012” Asian Survey vol. 53 (1) forthcoming.
“Nepal’s Protracted Democratization in terms of Modes of Transition,” Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, vol. 28 (1-2): 59-70(2010)
“Nepal’s Democratic Transition and the Rule of Law: Will the Judiciary Stay on Probation?” Himalayan Journal of Development and Democracy, vol.3 (1), 2008, pp. 14-20.
“Reflections on the state of Democratic Transition Process in South Asia: a Vanguard Role of Elites Critical to the consolidation Process,” (Expanded Abstract) Himalayan Journal of Development and Democracy, Special Issue 2006, pp. 30-31. Published by Nepal Study Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA http://hdl.handle.net/1928/2588

“BJP Politics: Looking Beyond the Impasse,” Economic and Political Weekly (India), November 29, 1997, vol. 32, no. 48, pp. 3090-3100.

“Pakistan in 1988: A Year of Change,” Research Center for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS) Year Review 1988, pp. 89-98.

“Pakistan in 1986,” CNAS Year Review 1986, pp. 95-117.

“Pakistan’s Politics of Transition-A New Turn,” Strategic Studies Series, a quarterly publication of CNAS, Kathmandu, Nepal, Vol. 4-5, 1985,

Scholarly Book:

Islamabad Paper No. 15, India-Pakistan Relations 1972-1987. Islamabad: The Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan 1988.

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