Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order
in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary
organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores
the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can
provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of
conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and
deliberative. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and observations
from dozens of villages across Afghanistan, and statistical
analysis of nationally representative surveys, Jennifer Brick
Murtazashvili demonstrates that such authority enhances citizen
support for democracy, enabling the rule of law by providing
citizens with a bulwark of defence against predatory state
officials. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it shows that
'traditional' order does not impede the development of the state
because even the most independent-minded communities see a need for
a central government - but question its effectiveness when it
attempts to rule them directly and without substantive
consultation.
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