TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruttig,Thomas
TI  - Islamists, leftists-and a void in the center : : Afghanistan’s political parties and where they come from (1902-2006) / 
AV  - Pamphlet JQ1769. A8.
PY  - 2006///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified] : 
PB  - [Publisher not identified], 
KW  - Political parties
KW  -  Afghanistan
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  -  History
KW  -  20th century
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  Politics and government
N1  - Contents: Introduction—The constitutionalist movements—The ‘Parties’ of the first democratic period : the wesh Dzalmian movement—The parties of the 2nd democratic period and in the Daud Republic—The parties during the war of resistance—Najibullah’s controlled multi-party system—Political organisation during the Mujahedin and Taleban regimes—Parties in the post-Taleban-period—The 2003 political parties law—The Sunni Tanzim—within and without : Hezb-e Islami—A legal Taleban party?—The Shia parties—A non-Jihadi Tanzim : Jombesh—The ethno-nationalists and the ethnic left—The ex-PDPA left—The ‘new democrats’—The moderate void and the lack of a ‘presidential party’—Political parties during the 2004 presidential and the 2005 parliamentary elections—Conclusion : three historical current-plus a new and a missing one—About the author
ER  -