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Bangladesh’s Rankings in Global Governance and Justice Indexes: University Students’ Perception Analysis

Md Syful Islam, Yeasin Arafat and Md Mostafa Faisal

Current Research in Social Sciences 10(2), 157–176, November 2024

Do Bangladesh’s weak positions in international governance and justice indexes reflect how its university students see the country’s institutions? Combining index data with a survey of 200 students on the judiciary, human rights, press freedom, political influence over the courts and corruption, the study finds that perceptions broadly match the rankings, and that students see an effective judiciary as important for economic growth.

  • Bangladesh
  • International indexes
  • University students
  • Governance
  • Perceptions
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Type
Research article in an academic journal
Method
Mixed methods: index analysis and student survey
Programme
Law, Institutions & Public Policy
DOI
10.30613/curesosc.1418357
Cite this article 
Islam, M. S., Arafat, Y., & Faisal, M. M. (2024). Bangladesh's rankings in global governance and justice indexes: University students' perception analysis. Current Research in Social Sciences, 10(2), 157–176. https://doi.org/10.30613/curesosc.1418357

Published in an external journal; not part of a BSLE series.

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