This paper reviews recent studies that examine how music has been used for electioneering
in in the 2016 general elections in Zambia. After a survey of several papers addressing …

Electoral manipulation undermines the function of elections as a mechanism of
representation and accountability, and erodes public trust in government institutions; …

Politicians mobilize people to vote by devising messages and imparting them to those
people. Many studies examine African electioneering through a framework that …

In electorally contested regimes, the incumbent party often uses clientelist exchanges to stay
in power long after its underlying electoral support has evaporated. Existing studies failed to …

This study addresses how the UK and the Swedish Iraqi diaspora mobilised towards state--‐
building in Iraq following the 2003 US led intervention. It explores why some diaspora …

The return of civilian government, however, faced its own challenges with King Letsie III
dissolving Parliament in 1994 following a dispute with the BCP over their refusal to allow the …