The Role of Deliberative Mini-Publics in the Quest for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan.
Political participation is recognized as a component of Bhutan's multidimensional development framework, 'Gross National Happiness' (GNH). In recent years, Bhutan has instituted a conventional system of liberal democratic, representative democracy. However, this system has supplanted an earlier, ind...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Bhutan Studies Vol. 32; pp. 45 - 74 |
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