Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? Drawing lessons from different types of party systems in six African countries, this volume shows that part
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often
The special issue revisits Levitsky and Way’s seminal study on Competitive Authoritarianism (2010). The contributions by North American, European, and African
Is the dominance of one political party a problem in an emerging democracy, or simply an expression of the will of the people? Why has one-party dominance endur