We provide a unified language for studying power sharing in authoritarian regimes. Power-
sharing deals entail not only sharing spoils between a ruler and challenger, but also …

Kenya's March 2013 elections ushered in a popular system of devolved government that
represented the country's biggest political transformation since independence. Yet within …

Over two decades have passed since the 'third wave'of democratization began to roll across
sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. The introduction to this collection provides an overall …

The power-sharing literature lacks a review that synthesizes its findings, despite spanning
over 50 years since Arend Lijphart published his seminal 1969 article 'Consociational …

Much of the promise of the good governance agenda in African countries since the 1990s
rested on reforms aimed at 'getting the institutions right', sometimes by creating regulatory …

Since the early 1990s a growing number of constitution building processes in countries
transitioning from authoritarian rule or recovering from war or severe institutional crisis have …

ON 24 APRIL 2015, THE RULING PARTY Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie–
Forces pour la défense de la démocratie (CNDD-FDD) designated incumbent President …

The defeat of ZANU-PF in the 2008 parliamentary election marked the end of one-party rule
in Zimbabwe. The Global Political Agreement signed later that resulted in a Government of …

Although consociational-style ethnic power-sharing arrangements are frequently adopted in
postconflict African states, their track record is spotty at best. Using post-civil war Nigeria …

Improving water services is a well-rehearsed political instrument to win public support
against a backdrop of a wide range of hydro-political realities in Africa. This paper examines …