Gender Electoral Quotas in Afghanistan The Adoption and Implementation of Electoral Quotas in Afghanistan (topic).
Pakistan was among the first countries world-wide to introduce gender quotas in parliament and since then followed the path of indirect reserved seats, ensuring women’s descriptive political representation ever since the 1950s. In contrast, quota provisions in Afghanistan are a legacy of the post-2001 intervention, opting for directly contested reserved seats at the national level. The question of quotas is closely linked to questions of the quality of a political system in terms of inclusive political representation and participation, thus also about the quality of democracy and its decision-making processes.
