Violence in African elections

Nordic Africa Institute

2018

xiv, 273 p.

Africa now

9781786992291

Introduction: the everyday politics of electoral violence in Africa / Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs --Ethnic politics and elite competition: the roots of electoral violence in Kenya / Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund --Wielding the stick again: the rise and fall and rise of state violence during presidential elections in Uganda / Anders Sjörgren --Land conflict and electoral violence in Côte d'Ivoire: a micro-level analysis / Matthew I. Mitchell --The geography of violence in Burundi's 2015 elections / Willy Dindorera and Jesper Bjarnsesen --Competition, uncertainty and violence in Sierra Leone's swing district / Ibrahim Bangura and Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs --Ex-militants and electoral violence in Nigeria's Niger Delta / Tarila Marclint Ebiede --The winner takes it all: post-war rebel networks, Big Man politics, and the threat of violence in the 2011 Liberian elections / Mariam Bjarnesen --Parsitic politics: violence, deception and change in Kenya's electoral politics / Jacob Rasmussen --Eclectic ties and election touts: Chipangano's cyclic governance agenda in Mbare, Zimbabwe / Tariro Mutongwizo --Patronage politics and electoral violence in Lagos, Nigeria: understanding the micro-level dynamics / Daniel E. Agbiboa --'Once they all pick their guns you can have your way': campaigning and talking about violence in northern Ghana / Afra Schmitz --Conclusion: beyond democracy and Big Man politics / Jesper Bjarnesen and Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs.

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