Publisher Description

A radical new approach to understanding Africa's elections: explaining why politicians, bureaucrats and voters so frequently break electoral rules.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislativ

Elections have emerged as one of the most important, and most contentious, features of political life on the African continent. In the first half of this decade