A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia
Manduhai Buyandelger, "A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia"
English | ISBN: 0226818748 | 2022 | 287 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0226818748 | 2022 | 287 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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. 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 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. In
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