Electoral cost disclosures fail to ensure accountability when politics runs on unseen, informal streams of money.
If Bangladesh wants student unions to be credible after the 2024 uprising, finance cannot be an afterthought. The opportunity is clear: student politics has been revived after years of dormancy, and this revival can be the seedbed of a democratic culture if the money problem is confronted head-on.
Electoral cost disclosures fail to ensure accountability when politics runs on unseen, informal streams of money.
If Bangladesh wants student unions to be credible after the 2024 uprising, finance cannot be an afterthought. The opportunity is clear: student politics has been revived after years of dormancy, and this revival can be the seedbed of a democratic culture if the money problem is confronted head-on.
