Nicola De Jager: 2 books
Friend or Foe? Dominant party systems in southern Africa
Insights from the developing world
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Within southern Africa, there has been a steady increase in the number of dominant party systems — systems where one party dominates over a prolonged period in an ostensibly democratic system with regular elections and multiple parties participating. This party system has replaced the one-party...
Democratic Contestation on the Margins
Regimes in Small African Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This edited volume focuses on the democratic performance of regimes in some of the least populous countries on the African continent. Using a framework developed by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, each case study provides in-depth analysis of democratic contestation in the following arenas: electoral,...