How do electoral turnovers shape citizen perceptions of election quality in competitive
authoritarian regimes? We argue that electoral outcomes are crucial for determining …

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 …

Most Africanist scholars stress the importance of clientelism in determining electoral
outcomes and patrimonialism and the use of force in enabling ruling parties to prolong their …

A new understanding of state-based refugee reception that reflects the complex dynamics of
contemporary refugee arrival. It is no longer realistic (if it ever was) to understand persons …

Zambia experienced its third electoral turnover in the 2021 election. While the ruling Patriotic
Front (PF) lost votes across the territory, the electoral collapse in urban Zambia was …

While violence is a common occurrence in African elections, most attention has been
focused only on a handful of cases with extreme levels of fatal election violence. Not only …

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 …

What can music used by politicians during campaigns tell us about their behaviour,
character and their rule? The article responds to this question by analysing political songs …

This article explores how Zambian mine workers used the courts and a protest campaign to
resist predatory lending by Stanbic Bank. Given that debt repayment was done directly from …

This article examines the failure of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government to secure the
electoral support of Copperbelt mine communities in the 2021 Zambian election, despite its …