Constitutional Design and Implementation Dynamics: Constitution and Federalism in Nepal

Preface
We all care about family, country, and ourselves. Yet, a few can be successful as the beneficiaries of chaos arising from conflict, systemic erosion, violence, and bad governance in the country. Still, the country and a large majority of people suffer from such chaos. Therefore, individual and family success, achievement, and pride are closely linked to the success of a country. Moreover, while success of a few individuals cannot assure the success of the country, all can feel the effects and dividends of a country’s success. Therefore, the success of a country is profoundly important for our own success, achievement, and pride.
This prompts a simple but pertinent question–how can one measure success, especially of a country? To put it in other words, what makes a country successful? This book is written to explore an answer to this question. The main schemes investigated in this book arise from the basic idea that a successful nation building reproduces the success of a country. In this light, this book explicates nation building on four broad premises: equal citizens, a robust market, universal social protection, and the rule of law.
This book analyzes a liberal democratic constitution as the bedrock for accomplishing the nation building process. Therefore, the federal republican design of the 2015 Constitution and its implementation demonstrate the path and possibility of nation building. Despite federalism being one of the main driving force of the 2015 Constitution, from the very beginning of its promulgation or even earlier, the 2015 Constitution is facing immense challenges in the implementation of federalism. Any delay in the effective implementation of federalism and intransigence in establishing the federal institutional structures may turn to be the stumbling blocks in questioning the foundation of the 2015 Constitution. Against this background, this book analyzes the constitutional design and its path of implementation from the p