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Securitizing the Sahel
Analysing External Interventions and their Consequences
Av Nina Wilén
Häftad, 2025
509 kr
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The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) to local military, police, and paramilitary forces. Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences critically …
Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions
Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda
Inbunden, 2024
1611 kr
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Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanation of why authoritarian parties and legislatures vary in strength, and why this variation matters. Michaela Collord elaborates a view of authoritarian …
Democratic Backsliding in Africa?
Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention
Av Leonardo R. Arriola, Lise Rakner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2047 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Why have most African countries not achieved greater political liberalization? What …
Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia
Power, Scale, Performativity
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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Everyday practices of state building interrogates the question about how to reinstate movement to our conceptualisation of state formation in Africa at a time in which the continent witnesses profound social and political transformations inscribed in increasingly globalised and localised dynamics. …
ID Wars in Côte d'Ivoire
A Political Ethnography of Identification and Citizenship
Av Richard Banégas, Armando Cutolo
Inbunden, 2024
1560 kr
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Identity documents provide rights to citizenship and social inclusion. They can also generate violence and conflicts. This book explores Côte d'Ivoire's 'ID war' as a paradigmatic case of a citizenship crisis, centered on the access to national identity cards and certificates. Using ethnographic …
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance
Av Tom Lavers
Inbunden, 2024
1504 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.After more than a decade of construction, Ethiopia is filling the …
Rural Democracy
Elections and Development in Africa
Häftad, 2022
563 kr
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How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition? Despite the broadly negative picture painted by the prevailing focus on electoral fraud, clientelism, and ethnic conflict, the book argues that the full story is somewhat more promising. While these …
Women and Power in Africa
Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing
Av Leonardo Arriola, Martha Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1540 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at [Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing examines …
Gradualist Lawfare, Urban Politics, and Local Power in Angola
Inbunden, 2026
1300 kr
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Angola is among a handful of African countries where local elections are yet to materialize. Gradualist Lawfare, Urban Politics, and Local Power in Angola situates the persistent deferral of local elections in Angola within wider debates around the contested nature of local government in African …
Youth Political Socialization in Zimbabwe
Agency in performative compliance
Av Marjoke Oosterom, Simbarashe Gukurume
Inbunden, 2027
1576 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of youth political socialization in an authoritarian context, based on extensive field research in Zimbabwe. Focusing on urban youth, it examines how young Zimbabweans learn to navigate their political environment and respond to the pervasive influence of …
Authoritarian Sanctuaries
How Dictators Use Refugee Policy
Av Alexander Betts, Julia Schweers
Inbunden, 2027
1576 kr
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Authoritarian states host the majority of the world’s refugees, and have done so throughout the history of the modern refugee system. Despite being generally illiberal and frequently repressive, dictators have often been surprisingly willing to welcome and integrate large numbers of refugees. In …
Pan-Africanism Today
Inbunden, 2027
1821 kr
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What does Pan-Africanism mean today? This book offers a fundamental reappraisal of Pan-Africanism as a tradition of political thought and a framework for understanding contemporary global politics. Moving beyond accounts that treat it as a historical movement, diplomatic project, or symbolic ideal, …
Rural Democracy
Elections and Development in Africa
Inbunden, 2020
1362 kr
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How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition? Despite the broadly negative picture painted by the prevailing focus on electoral fraud, clientelism, and ethnic conflict, the book argues that the full story is somewhat more promising. While these …
Multiethnic Democracy
The Logic of Elections and Policymaking in Kenya
Inbunden, 2022
1304 kr
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Who are the swing voters in multiethnic democracies? How much effort do parties invest in courting the swing relative to mobilizing supporters in their core ethnic bases? And how does this balance affect the policies leaders propose - and implement - if elected? This book examines the logic of …
Arbitrary States
Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda
Inbunden, 2021
1360 kr
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In recent years, scholars have noted the rise of a particular type of authoritarianism worldwide, in which rulers manipulate institutions designed to implement the rule of law so that they instead facilitate the exercise of arbitrary power. Even as scholars puzzle over this seemingly new …
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters
The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence
Inbunden, 2023
1537 kr
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Violence in election campaigns is common across the African continent and beyond. According to some estimations, most African elections contain some degree of violence and most of this violence happens before elections, during the campaign. While campaign violence is a common problem, it affects …
The Railpolitik
Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development
Av Yuan Wang
Inbunden, 2023
1433 kr
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The growing presence of China in Africa has drawn increasing scholarly and public attention. With Beijing's announcement of the 'going global' policy in the early 2000s and further institutionalization through the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, Chinese policy banks and state-owned companies have …
Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy
The #BringBackOurGirls Movement
Inbunden, 2024
1332 kr
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Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy provides an insider-outsider analysis of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement. Formed through a coalition of elite women and middle-class allies to advocate for the rescue of over 200 high school girls from Chibok, Nigeria, who were kidnapped by …
Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa
Everyday Production of Democratic Legitimacy
Inbunden, 2024
1659 kr
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Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not? Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa makes a novel contribution to this question. In a departure from the typical story about the “boring” administrative tasks that electoral …
Looking for the Political in Africa
Historical Knowledge and Contemporary Struggles
Av Vincent Bonnecase, Julien Brachet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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How should we make sense of the political dynamics in Africa today? Which point of view should we adopt to grasp the diversity of what is happening on the ground and in the day-to-day reality of power relations and social practices? To what extent do structural determinants articulate with …
The Political Logic of Cultural Revival
Ethnic Visibility, Linked Fate, and Electoral Politics in Africa
Inbunden, 2024
1276 kr
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Since 2008, prominent members of the Lhomwe ethnic group - a large but politically marginalized community in Malawi - have waged an aggressive campaign to revive their lost cultural heritage, including their language, names, foods, and dances. Existing research has linked such processes of …
China and African Parliaments
Inbunden, 2025
1205 kr
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China and African Parliaments maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilisation of three parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were financed and constructed by the People's Republic of China (China). The book is the first to explore and explain the impact of …
Voice in Local Development
Participation, Empowerment, and Accountability in Kenya
Av Michael Touchton, Brian Wampler
Inbunden, 2025
1974 kr
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Many governments in semi-democratic regimes have adopted participatory democratic institutions to promote development and accountability. But limited resources, weak civil society, and a history of authoritarian politics make building subnational democratic institutions daunting. This book …
Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change in Africa
Av Alex Osei-Kojo, Alex Osei-Kojo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1682 kr
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The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a theoretical framework originally formulated to study US public policy, has been widely applied to western countries and has advanced policy process scholarship over the past three decades. However, there are far fewer systematic efforts to apply the …
African Climate Futures
Av Carl Death
Inbunden, 2025
1631 kr
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African Climate Futures shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present. Scientific climate scenarios forecast bleak futures, with increased droughts, floods, lethal heatwaves, sea level …
National Identity in Africa
Peace, Democracy, and Everyday National Narratives
Inbunden, 2026
1262 kr
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National identity in sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed as underdeveloped and less important than ethnic identity. Yet, recent empirical evidence from across the continent shows that national identity is more robust than many predicted. Existing theories do not fully account for this as they do …
Securitizing the Sahel
Analysing External Interventions and their Consequences
Av Nina Wilén
Inbunden, 2025
2196 kr
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The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) to local military, police, and paramilitary forces. Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences critically …
Imagined Sovereignties in African Cultural Industries
National Belonging on the Move
Av Alessandro Jedlowski, Irene Bono
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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Imagined Sovereignties in African Cultural Industries explores the evolving dynamics of imagined communities through the lens of cultural production in music and audiovisual media in Nigeria, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco and the DRC. Positioned at the intersection of politics, international …
