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Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance

Democracy Paradox

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Afghans Make Much of the Ethnic Differences

That what's one of the things that really surprised me is that, so, of course, there's diversity. There's diversity in norms, just as there isn't any country states assumed, no vastly different norms from regent to regent. But what i found that surprised me was the uniformity of these institutions across villages. They'll have different names, they'll have different titles, but thit's a controversial statement among the afghans, i know, but you know, there's a lot of afghans make much of the ethnic differences.

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