Cheeseman - Institutions and democracy in Africa: how the rules of the game shape political developments

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DOI: 10.1017/9781316562888

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Names: Cheeseman, Nicholas, 1979 editor.

Title: Institutions and democracy in Africa : how the rules of the game shape political developments / Edited by Nic Cheeseman.

Description: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017044887 | ISBN 9781107148246 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Africa Politics and government 21st century. | Political culture Africa. | Democracy Africa.

Classification: LCC JQ1875 .I55 2017 | DDC 320.96dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044887

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Rachel Beatty Riedl

Catherine Boone

Leonardo R. Arriola

Muna Ndulo

Peace A. Medie

M. Anne Pitcher and Manuel P. Teodoro

Ian Cooper

Carolien van Ham and Staffan I. Lindberg

Brian Klaas

Daniel N. Posner and Daniel J. Young

Michaela Collord

Peter VonDoepp

Alex Dyzenhaus

Nic Cheeseman

Leonardo R. Arriola is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on democratic politics and political violence in developing countries. He is the author of Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies and World Politics . He currently serves on the editorial boards of African Affairs, Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Studies .

Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on African political economy and state-building. She is the author of Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Political Topographies of the African State (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal (Cambridge University Press, 1993). She chairs the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), is a long-standing member of APSAs Africa Initiative and is past-president of the West African Research Association.

Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham and was formerly Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford University. He is the recipient of the GIGA award for the best article in Comparative Area Studies (2013) and the Frank Cass Award for the best article in Democratization (2015). He is also the author of Democracy in Africa: Successes, failures and the struggle for political reform (Cambridge University Press, 2015), the founding editor of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics , a former editor of the journal African Affairs , and an advisor to, and writer for, Kofi Annans African Progress Panel.

Michaela Collord is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research examines dominant party politics and legislative institutional change with a primary focus on Uganda and Tanzania.

Ian Cooper is Teaching Associate in Comparative Politics at Cambridge University. His research focuses on democratisation and electoral politics in southern Africa, with a particular focus on party motivation, internal party democracy and ethnic mobilisation. He has published articles in Democratisation, Transformation and the Journal of Southern African Studies .