Existing analyses of opposition pre-electoral alliance formation in electoral autocracies
neglect their coordinated election campaigns against incumbent autocrats. This paper …

Presidents have access to a range of resources unavailable to challengers, and often the
most important are derived from control of the state. This allows incumbents to build more …

This book addresses a pertinent issue in comparative politics: how can the discipline do
analytical justice to regions of the world that differ historically from the Western experience …

To explain how the Islamic resistance movement Hamas has remained in power in Gaza for
nearly two decades, the police state argument, ruling through the use of force, is insufficient …

There is a long academic tradition researching democratization. In most scholarly studies,
democratization has referred to “political changes moving in a democratic …

Este artículo tiene el objetivo de dar cuenta cómo la obstrucción de la democracia en África
postindependentista es resultado de una tensión entre poderes disímiles: el colonizador y el …

After a failed transition to democracy in the 1990s in Togo, the opposition took refuge in
Ghana, outside of the regime's reach. Why and how did the regime react to transnational …

The thesis examines political and economic transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and
particularly in post-communist Ethiopia and Angola between 1989-2019 by applying the …

After a failed transition to democracy in the 1990s in Togo, the opposition took refuge in
Ghana, outside of the regime's reach. Why and how did the regime react to transnational …

The thesis examines political and economic transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and
particularly in post-communist Ethiopia and Angola between 1989-2019 by applying the …