Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

The topic of populism in foreign policy is receiving growing attention in academic and public
discourse as populist parties and movements proliferate around the world. Yet foreign policy …

Recent Turkish foreign policy (TFP) under the successive AKP governments has seen
different populist turns. A clear distinction can be made between the thin and thick populisms …

Rapid urbanization and political liberalization is changing the nature of African politics and
societies. This book develops a framework for the study of democracy and development that …

Cross-national research on African electoral politics has argued that competition increases
the prospects for pre-election violence. However, there is a dearth of systematic research on …

Do socio-economic cleavages shape electoral dynamics in African countries? Previous
individual-level and party systems research on African politics has de-emphasized socio …

What drives tax compliance among informal workers, and how does compliance affect their
policy preferences? Informal workers in developing countries encounter multiple taxes …

ABSTRACT 'The elite'in ideational and discursive conceptions of populism has gone ill-
defined. This makes conceptions of populism elastic. This article asserts that a discourse …

Prior research determines whether politicians at rallies make programmatic, clientelist or
personalist appeals. We argue that this reductive approach obscures the variety of meaning …

Abstract Deputy President William Ruto's victorious presidential campaign in Kenya's 2022
elections saw him champion the plight of the 'hustlers', young informal economy workers on …