This paper seeks to make an alternative translation/ interpretation of Bhutan's democracy, in place of the mainstream view that the country has recently made a decisive transition toward democracy. It calls our attention to the country's time-honored `natural democracy,' which rests on ...
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Bhutan--the tiny Himalayan country currently installing radical democracy--is sometimes mythologized and orientalized in popular media through utopian projections. Of special interest to westerners is the Bhutanese "Gross Happiness Index," which seems to found democracy on a unique set of assumptions...