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Activist Origins of Political Ambition
A first-of-its-kind study of legislative candidacy in electoral autocracies in Africa showing how civic activism translates into opposition ambition.
Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990
First comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa since the democratic transitions of the early 1990s.
Money for Votes
This book explains why vote buying is common in low-income democracies in Africa, and examines its consequences for democratic accountability.
Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World
A comparative study of the role of political parties and movements in the founding and survival of developing world democracies.
Why Democracies Develop and Decline
Evaluates the most important explanations for democratization and democratic decline, using new global data extending across modern history.
Twenty Years After Communism
While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy. In post-communist Eastern Europe, the way people remember state socialism is closely intertwined with the manner in which they envision historical justice. Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not commemorated) by major political actors across the region. The book is built on three premises. The first is that po...
Turbulence and Order in Economic Development
This book studies economic development in two of the world's fastest growing developing countries, Tanzania and Vietnam, by examining the interplay between market liberalization, institutions, and the distribution of power in society.
Political Opposition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is room for political opposition in most cases so severely limited? Under what circumstances has the political opposition been able to establish itself in a legitimate role in African politics? To answer these questions this edited volume focuses on the institutional settings, the nature and dynamics within and between political parties, and the relationship between the citizens and political parties. It is found that regional devolution and federalist structures enable political opposition to organize and gain local power, as a supplement to influence at the central level. Generally, however, opposition parties are lacking in organization and institutionalization, as well as in their ability to find support in civil society and promote the issues that voters find most important. Overall, strong executive powers, unchecked by democratic institutions, in combination with deferential values and fear of conflict, undermine legitimate opposition activity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
Gentle Lady Samia Suluhu Hassan: Tanzania's first female president
This work is about Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania's first female president. She was also Tanzania's first female vice president. And she was the only female president in Africa when she went into office. She is also the third female president in Africa with executive powers. One of the biggest challenges Tanzania faces under the leadership of President Samia Suluhu Hassan is the quest for true democracy. The country is at the crossroads. It either pursues democracy in the full practical – not theoretical – sense or it abandons the goal and maintains the status quo, reversing whatever gains that have been made in the past in pursuit of this noble goal. The work looks at the central and cri...
