Last updated: 14 February 2011

• Addis, Casey L. and Kenneth Katzman. Middle East Elections 2009: Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 18 May 2009.

• Afghan Analysts Network. Polling Day Fraud in the Afghan Elections. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Analysts Network, 3 September 2009.

• Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections First Report: 25 April – 12 June 2009. Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA, August 2009.

• ———. AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections Second Report 16 June – 1 August 2009. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, August 2009.

• ———. AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections Third Report 1 August – 21 October 2009. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, 30 October 2009.

• Amiri, Ali and Abdul Jalil Benish. The First Experience: Voting Patterns and Political Alignments in Wolesi Jirga (2005-2010). Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Watch, September 2010.

• Ayub, Fatima, Antonella Deledda, and Patricia Gossman. Vetting Lessons for the 2009-10 Elections in Afghanistan. New York, New York: International Center for Transitional Justice, 30 January 2009.

• Coburn, Noah. Afghan Elections 2010: Alternative Narratives. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, September 2010.

• ———. Parliamentarians and Local Politics in Afghanistan: Elections and Instability II. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, September 2010.

• Hassan Wafaey, M. and Anna Larson. The Wolesi Jirga in 2010: Pre-Election Politics and the Appearance of Opposition. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, June 2010.

• International Crisis Group. Afghanistan's Election Challenges. Brussels, Belgium: International Crisis Group, 24 June 2009.

• Kippen, Grant. Elections in 2009 and 2010: Technical and Contextual Challenges to Building Democracy in Afghanistan. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 30 November 2008.

• Larson, Anna. Afghanistan’s New Democratic Parties: A Means to Organise Democratisation?. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 30 March 2009.

• ———. The Wolesi Jirga in Flux, 2010: Elections and Instability I. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, September 2010.

• National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. The 2009 Presidential and Provincial Council Elections in Afghanistan. Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 11 June 2010.

• ———. Afghanistan Elections Update - another Afghan Election: What has Changed?: Perspective from Five Years Ago and Last Year. Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 2 September 2010.

• Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Lessons Learned in Preparing and Conducting Elections in Afghanistan. Arlington, Virginia: Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 9 September 2010.

• The International Council on Security and Development. Afghanistan’s Presidential Elections: Power to the People, Or the Powerful?. London, United Kingdom: The International Council on Security and Development, 30 March 2009.

• ———. Political Quagmire in Afghanistan. London, United Kingdom: The International Council on Security and Development, 16 September 2009.

• van Bijlert, Martine. How to Win an Afghan Election: Perceptions and Practices. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Analysts Network, August 2009.

• ———. Who Controls the Vote: Afghanistan's Evolving Elections. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Analysts Network, May 2010.

Public Opinion

• Feld, Karl, Veronica Gardner, D3 Systems, Sweeta Hashimi, and ACSOR-Surveys. Living Female in Afghanistan. Vienna, VA: D3 Systems, July 2008.

• Rennie, Ruth, Sudhindra Sharma, and Pawan Sen. "A Survey of the Afghan People." Kabul, Afghanistan: The Asia Foundation, October 2009.