| Description |
x, 387 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-376) and index. |
| Contents |
Elections and election studies in Africa / Michael Cowen & Liisa Laakso -- Politics of national elections in Botswana, Lesotho & Switzerland : towards a comparative analysis / Michael Neocosmos -- Beyond the silence of women in Ethiopian politics / Eva Poluha -- Behind the transparent ballot box : the significance of the 1990s elections in Ghana / Anthony Kwesi Aubynn -- Multi-party elections in Guinea-Bissau / Lars Rudebeck -- 1997 elections in Kenya : the politics of communality and locality / Michael Cowen & Karuti Kanyinga -- Winning elections, losing legitimacy : multi-partyism & the Neopatrimonial State in Malawi / Harri Englund -- Swapo wins, apathy rules : the Namibian 1998 local authority elections / Iina Soiri -- Transition to nowhere : electoral politics in Nigeria during the Abacha years, 1993-1998 / Adebayoo O. Olukoshi -- Multi-party elections and the predicament of northern hegemony in Sudan / Atta El-Battahani -- Elections at the borderland : voter opinion in Arusha & Kilimanjaro Tanzania / Tuulikki Pietila, Sanna Ojalammi-Wamai, & Liisa Laakso -- Contesting democracy : 1996 elections in Zambia / Jeremy Gould -- When elections are just a formality : rural-urban dynamics in the dominant-party system of Zimbabwe / Liisa Laakso. |
| Subject |
Elections -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
|
|
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-
|
| Added Author |
Cowen, Michael.
|
|
Laakso, Liisa.
|
| ISBN |
0312294867 |
|
0852558449 |
|
0852558430 (PBK.) |
|
