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Volume 33, Issue 2.
Fall
State-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that policymakers and the media pay considerable amount of attention to first elections. Democratic processes have proven to be reversible, and much less attention has paid to second elections, however, and their importance to nascent democracies. The Fletcher Forum facilitated a ... read morediscussion with Larry Diamond, Ashraf Ghani, and Rend al Rahim, three prominent experts in the fields of state-building and democratization, to explore what second elections can tell us about the health of Iraq and Afghanistan. The participants discussed a wide array of topics-ranging from power dynamics to the shift in electoral strategies, and from the longevity of political parties to the impact of Islam on the electoral process-and identified policies that would facilitate the process of democratization in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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