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African countries
Anglophone Africa
Author_Liisa Laakso
Category=JPHF
Category=JPL
Democracy
Donor countries
Elections
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Ethiopia
Guinea Bissau
Local elections
Malawi
Multiparty politics
Political expression
Political manipulation
Politics
Sudan
Product details
- ISBN 9780852558430
- Weight: 606g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2002
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A volume of electoral studies of multiparty politics in 14 African countries during the 1990s.
Most of the studies in this book are about national elections in Anglophone Africa. There are also less well-known examples from Sudan, Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau. The collection also features studies of the local elections in Namibia and of a significant by-election in Malawi. The multiparty period has been put, wherever possible, within the historical context of earlier elections in Africa.
Questions addressed include: how did incumbent governing regimes learn to live with multiparty politics? Why have some elections been so closely fought and others have suffered from apathy? Why has there been relatively open political expression and activity when the elections have increased the political and economic manipulation by incumbent governments? Why have the elections of the 1990s been so marked by local and ethnic variations? To what extent did this wave of democracy result from pressure from donor countries?
North America: Palgrave
