“It s not charity, it is a chair of power”-moving beyond symbolic representation in Afghanistan’s transition politics? / Andrea Fleschenberg ; editor Jennifer Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Kabul and Islamabad : Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2016.Description: 33 pages ; 28 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet HQ1735.6. F536 2016
Contents:
Contents: Introductory remarks : Afghanistan & the global shift on gender quotas—It’s all in the rules of the game-theorising women’s substantive political representation—“I am a voice, their voice, of those who are not loud”-the issue of constituency—“I just changed the public perception”-assessing women’s political performance—“We are between the future and the past”-challenges and obstacles of quota legislators—“I do not want to speak of the women of parliament”-male MPs and the gender quota—Debating electoral reforms and the quota-“we have a very big problem with the system” and “we need to play politics like men”—Beyond vulnerabilities and volatilities towards women’s substantive political representation-some tentative conclusions with regard to Afghanistan—Bibliography.
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“Heinrich Böll Stiftung”—cover page.

“Reviewing gender quotas in Afghanistan and Pakistan”—title page.

“Includes bibliography”—(page 33).

Contents: Introductory remarks : Afghanistan & the global shift on gender quotas—It’s all in the rules of the game-theorising women’s substantive political representation—“I am a voice, their voice, of those who are not loud”-the issue of constituency—“I just changed the public perception”-assessing women’s political performance—“We are between the future and the past”-challenges and obstacles of quota legislators—“I do not want to speak of the women of parliament”-male MPs and the gender quota—Debating electoral reforms and the quota-“we have a very big problem with the system” and “we need to play politics like men”—Beyond vulnerabilities and volatilities towards women’s substantive political representation-some tentative conclusions with regard to Afghanistan—Bibliography.

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