Voting for Democracy: Watershed Elections in Contemporary Anglophone Africa

by Roger Southall and Daniel John

Book Overview

First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule (colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party states,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138370355
• ISBN13: 9781138370357
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.