Parliament of Bangladesh

Nizam Ahmed, Dr, Department of Public Administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Professor Nizam Ahmed has taught Public Administration at the University of Chittagong since 1979. Before joining the University, he worked as a Research Fellow for six months at a national-level research organisation. Professor Ahmed is the co-editor of Parliaments in Asia (London, Frank Cass, 1999) and the author of Parliament and Public Spending in Bangladesh (Dhaka, Institute of Parliamentary Studies, 2001) (Forthcoming)

’A laudable endeavour to analyse the nature and working of the Parliament in Bangladesh by an author who has unrivalled reputation for his extensive and scholarly research publications on the Bangladesh legislature. Anyone interested to comprehend the legislature of an emerging democratic country like Bangladesh should be delighted to find this book an indispensable read...’ Professor Muhammad A. Hakim, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

• Contents: Introduction; The development of parliament in Bangladesh; Toward a new beginning: parliament in the 1990s; Legislation; Parliamentary surveillance; Parliamentary committees; Constituency representation; Opposition politics; Government backbench politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.