Violence in African elections Between democracy and Big Man politics

• Drugi avtorji: Söderberg Kovacs, Mimmi (Editor), Bjarnesen, Jesper (Editor)
• Format: Elektronski Book Chapter
• Jezik: angleščina
• Izdano: Uppsala; London The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) 2018
• Serija: Africa Now
• Teme: Development studies; International relations; Africa; Democracy; Elections; Electoral systems; Voting; Politics; Conflicts; Violence; Case studies; Kenya; Uganda; Côte d'Ivoire; Burundi; Sierra Leone; Nigeria; Liberia; Zimbabwe; Ghana; Political violence
• Online dostop: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent's progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often...