Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Jul 2018)

Hybrid democracy: electoral rules and political competition in Afghanistan

  • Aureo Gomes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201800107
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 61, no. 1

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Abstract Departing from the hybridity literature on peacebuilding and electoral studies, this paper treats democratization in Afghanistan as a hybridization process. As a result, to understand the durability of corruption, fragile political parties, and non-democratic practices in the country, one should look more closely at the interplay between the current electoral system and how elites and local people respond to it.

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