A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia Buyandelger Manduhai
A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia Buyandelger Manduhai A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political…
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A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia Buyandelger Manduhai
A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over.Mongolia has often been deemed an "island of democracy," commended for its rapid adoption of free democratic elections in the wake of totalitarian socialism. In this way, electoral campaigns have come to substitute for the functions of governing, from social welfare to the private sector, requiring an accumulation of wealth and power beyond the reach of most women candidates. The democratizing era, however, brought alongside it a phenomenon that Manduhai Buyandelger terms "electionization"-a restructuring of elections from time-grounded events into a continuous neoliberal force that governs everyday life beyond the electoral period.
In A Thousand Steps to Parliament, Buyandelger shows how
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