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

Cover title.
“Research study ; publication series “reviewing gender quotas in Afghanistan and Pakistan” 2016”—cover page.

“Includes bibliography”—(page 32).

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, f 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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