Where are the sore losers? competitive authoritarianism, incumbent defeat, and electoral trust in Zambia's 2021 election

N Kerr, M Krönke, M Wahman - Public Opinion Quarterly, 2024 - academic.oup.com
How do electoral turnovers shape citizen perceptions of election quality in competitive
authoritarian regimes? We argue that electoral outcomes are crucial for determining …

Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on-and offline in Zambia's 2021 elections

G Lynch, E Gadjanovaa - Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT President Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front used a range of incumbency
advantages to tilt the playing field in their favour in the run-up to Zambia's 2021 elections …

Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya's 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome

D Galava, K Kanyinga - Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In much of Africa, opposition presidential candidates face the benefits of incumbency and
often accuse the government of rigging. But in Kenya's 2022 presidential election, it was the …

'The outcome of a historical process set in motion in 1991': explaining the failure of incumbency advantage in Zambia's 2021 election

S Sishuwa - Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article uses a longitudinal comparative perspective to analyse Zambia's 2021 transfer of
power. The article takes the previous elections since the transition to multi-party democracy …

[PDF][PDF] Lessons from West Africa: Strategies for preventing coups in the East African community

SM Haruna - 2024 - academicjournals.org
This article investigates the interregional ramifications of West African coups and their
implications for the East African Community (EAC) security strategy. The paper uses a …

DÉJÀ VU WITH DIFFERENCE

D Moore - Journal of African Elections - journals.co.za
Violence–ranging from barely detectable to genocidal to coups and post-coup mêlées–has
marred most if not all of Zimbabwe's elections since its 1980 birth. Electoral brutality has …