Polity Vol.7 No.1

EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL: THE PROMISE OF JANUARY 8th IN PERSPECTIVE		2
TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC REFORMS: THE 1st PRAVADA EDITORIAL (NOVEMBER 1991)		4
ESSAYS
FROM GOOD GOVERNANCE TO INEPT GOVERNANCE	Jayadeva Uyangoda	6
TAMIL NATIONALIST ACT IN THE THEATRE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE	MeeNilankco Theiventhran	10
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN POST-WAR SRI LANKA: DILEMMAS AND PROSPECTS	Nipunika O. Lecamwasam	14
YAHAPALANAYA’S PROMISE OF RECONCILIATION: MERELY A MEANS, NOT AN END?	Pradeep Peiris	18
“MEH UTHUMWU DEHAYA”: THE NECROPOLITICAL AFTERMATH OF JANUARY 8th	Andi Schubert	24
HOW DID WOMEN VOTE?	Kumari Jayawardena	32
INTERVIEWS
THE CUE FOR QUOTAS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHULANI KODIKARA	Hasini Lecamwasam	34
IN QUEST FOR CIVIL SOCIETY: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. NIRMAL RANJITH DEWASIRI	Pradeep Peiris	40
FIELD DIARY
CAMPAIGN TRAIL BLUES: ERAN WICKRAMARATNE’S 2015 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN	Mark Schubert	44
REPORT
KEY FINDINGS: POLITICAL WEATHER ANALYSIS, JUNE 2015		49
REVIEWS
A HETERODOX READING OF JAYADEVA UYANGODA’S SOCIAL RESEARCH: PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS	Vangeesa Sumanasekara	51
THE POLITICS OF SINHALA-BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY	Kalana Senaratne	54
ASOKA HANDAGAMA’S LET HER CRY: A CRY FOR A RADICAL FEMINIST CINEMA	Prabha Manuratne	59
THE FANTASY OF OUR DETACHMENT: RACISM AND COMPLICITY IN VIJITH NUWAN’S SILGATH BILLO	Andi Schubert	64
CALL FOR PAPERS
1977 AND AFTER: 40 YEARS OF THE OPEN ECONOMY IN SRI LANKA		66

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