Democracy, Liberalism, and Polycentricism in Afghanistan
Democracy, Liberalism, and Polycentricism in Afghanistan
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Drawing on political economy and theory, this book explores how pluralism has shaped political life in Afghanistan-and how the institutions built to govern the country repeatedly failed to accommodate it. It brings scholars together across disciplines to examine Afghanistan's deep diversity of ethnic, religious, and political ways of life, and the indigenous practices of self-governance that long managed that diversity from the ground up. Successive state-building projects-Marxist, Islamist, and liberal alike-sought to impose a singular vision of good on a society defined by difference. Through the lenses of polycentrism and the modus vivendi strand of liberalism, the contributors trace how authority distributed across multiple centers-customary councils, religious institutions, and local governments-shaped political order, how strongmen and patronage networks captured the state's resources, and why centralizing institutions so often undermined indigenous self-governance.
The volume reexamines the fall of the republic, the discontents of liberal democracy, and the return of the Taliban. Rather than offering a single verdict, it invites readers to reconsider how political orders might be designed to govern deep differences.
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Table of Contents
by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh, USA and Omar Sadr, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Part I: Reassessing Liberalism and Intervention in Afghanistan
Chapter 1: A Critique of Liberalism in Afghanistan
by Haroun Rahimi, American University, Afghanistan
Chapter 2: Institutional Roots of Failed Liberal Interventions: A Case for Decentralization
by Mirwais Parsa, Seton Hill University, USA
Chapter 3: Pathologies of Market Economy in a Peacebuilding Mission: The Case of Afghanistan (2001-2021)
by Weeda Mehran, University of Exeter, UK
Part II: Pluralism, Polycentrism, and the Afghan Social Order
Chapter 4: A Theory of Pluralist Polycentrism: Religious Actors, Religion and Political Order
by Omar Sadr, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Chapter 5: Reorienting Liberalism: Hazaras in Post-2001 Afghanistan
by Rabia Latif Khan, SOAS University of London, UK
Part III: Democratization, Institutional Design, and Elite Politics
Chapter 6: Ethnocentric Ruling Elites and the Failing of Liberal Democracy in Afghanistan
by Sharif Hozoori, Cornell University, USA
Chapter 7: Democratization Under Institutional Variation: A Comparative Study of Shah's Decade of Democracy and the Post-2001 Era
by Tariq Basir, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Chapter 8: Unsettling Elite Bargains: Power, Interests, and Institutional Design
by Kaweh Kerami, Durham University, UK
Product details
| Published | Apr 15 2027 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781978768871 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 tables |
| Series | Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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