Derailing democracy in Afghanistan: elections in an unstable political landscape

Abstract

List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsChronology: Timeline of Elections and Other Major Historical Events in AfghanistanDemocracy Derailed?Map of Afghanistan1. Understanding Elections in Afghanistan2. Of Ballots and Boundaries: A Brief History of Political Participation in Afghanistan3. Electing the Peace? Afghanistan's Fast-Track Democracy4. A House of Sand: The Fallout of the 2005 Parliamentary Election5. Engineering Elections Locally6. The Unintended Consequences of International Support7. Violence and Voting8. They Make Their Ablutions with Bottled Water: Elites and the Decline of Accountability9. International Intervention and Aspirations of Representative GovernanceNotesReferencesIndex