Analyzing civil society resistance to elite‐led democratic backsliding in Africa, the article
argues that the non‐militant, civil society‐based transitions experienced in the 1990s left a …

Democracy is one of the most contested words in the English language. In Africa, these
complexities are compounded by the question of whether democracy is a colonial …

Zambia experienced an episode of distinct democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021.
Autocratisation resulted from the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to enhance executive …

The article advances two related arguments with regard to term limit decisions in Sub-
Saharan Africa. We should take a long-term perspective on term limit decisions and not …

Much of the scholarly work on politics in Zambia during the early 2000s stresses the role of
populist mobilisations and the exploitation of ethnic language identities when explaining …

How does the strength of political-party opposition affect government-critical civil society
organisations (CSOs)'engagement with autocratic elections? The question is particularly …

Following a peaceful transfer of power from the one-party government of the United National
Independence Party (UNIP) in the 1991 multiparty election …

Much has been written about the strength of African presidentialism. This article studies the
resilience of presidential power in Zambia in the face of electoral turnover. Opposition …

This paper tracks how the Patriotic Front (PF)–Zambia's main opposition from 2006 to 2011,
when the party won power–shifted its strategies of dealing with the urban poor, civil society …

The world is experiencing a new wave of autocratisation, characterised by a global
democratic reversal. From 2010 to 2020, the share of the world population living in …