ABSTRACT
This chapter provides institutional and procedural arrangements to get rid of the problems or to minimize the problems of democratization in the South Asian countries. The parliamentary form of democracy may be conveniently rearranged with the American political and governmental institutions which are seemed to be logically more relevant to South Asian contexts. The countries in the South Asian subcontinent are the interesting cases to investigate for an understanding of the democratization process. The people in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have enormous enthusiasm for democracy as the electoral behaviors in these countries indicate. The chapter focuses on the behaviors of the main actors and attempts to find out their flaws in the process of democratic development instead of just looking at the traditional institutions from a formal legalistic approach. Democracy can be conceptualized as development because of its substantive distinctiveness from other systems of government.
