TY - BOOK AU - Coburn,Noah AU - Larson,Anna TI - Derailing democracy in Afghanistan: elections in an unstable political landscape SN - 9780231166201 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - JQ1769. A5. U1 - 324.9581 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - Elections KW - Afghanistan KW - Democracy KW - Democratization KW - Politics and government KW - 2001- N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Contents: List of illustrations—List of abbreviations—Chronology : timeline of elections and other major historical events in Afghanistan, 1931-2011—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 ER -