Introduction : contesting political space: who governs in Bangladesh / Ipshita Basu, Joe Devine and Geof Wood -- Party dysfunction and homeostatis in Bangladesh : the old disordifer restored (or not) / Harry Blair -- Where are the drivers of governance reform? / Pierre Landell-Mills -- Citizen-centred governance : lessons from high performing Asian economies for Bangladesh / Habibul Haque Khondker -- Governance, rights and the demand for democracy : evidence from Bangladesh / Ipshita Basu, Graham K. Brown and Joe Devine -- Deconstructing the natural state? : is there room for de Tocqueville or only Gramsci in Bangladesh / Geof Wood -- When things go wrong in NGOs : what can be learned from cases of organisational breakdown and "failure"? / David Lewis -- The significance of unruly politics in Bangladesh / Naomi Hossain -- Governance challenges in Bangladesh : old wine in not so new bottles? / Joe Devine, Ipshita Basu and Geof Wood