Coburn / Larson Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan

Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-53574-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Based on fieldwork in provinces across the country and interviews with more than seven hundred candidates, officials, community leaders, and voters, this book builds an in-depth portrait of Afghanistan’s recent elections as experienced by individuals and communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coburn, Noah

Larson, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Chronology: Timeline of Elections and Other Major Historical Events in Afghanistan
Democracy Derailed?
Map of Afghanistan
1. Understanding Elections in Afghanistan
2. Of Ballots and Boundaries: A Brief History of Political Participation in Afghanistan
3. Electing the Peace? Afghanistan's Fast-Track Democracy
4. A House of Sand: The Fallout of the 2005 Parliamentary Election
5. Engineering Elections Locally
6. The Unintended Consequences of International Support
7. Violence and Voting
8. "They Make Their Ablutions with Bottled Water": Elites and the Decline of Accountability
9. International Intervention and Aspirations of Representative Governance
Notes
References
Index

Leseproben

Read the chapter, "Understanding Elections in Afghanistan"

Über Autor(innen)

Noah Coburn is a political anthropologist at Bennington College in Vermont. He has conducted fieldwork in Afghanistan since 2005, focusing on political and economic life in Afghanistan, particularly on issues of violence, conflict, and local governance. His book, Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town, was the first full-length ethnography of a Tajik community in Afghanistan. He received his doctorate from the Anthropology Department at Boston University.

Anna Larson is an academic researcher focusing on democratization, governance, and gender in fragile states. She worked in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2010, leading research programs in governance for the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). She has published widely on issues of democratization, political party development, elections, gender, and parliamentary dynamics. She completed her doctoral studies in postwar recovery at the University of York, UK.