Nic Cheeseman

Moral Economy of Elections in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Democracy, Voting and Virtue

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Do elections turn people into democratic citizens? Elections have long been seen as a way to foster democracy, development and security in Africa, with many hoping that the secret ballot would transform states. Adopting a new approach that focusses on the moral economy of elections, Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis show how elections are shaped by competing visions of what it means to be a good leader, bureaucrat or citizen. Using a mixed-methods study of elections in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, they explore moral claims made by officials, politicians, civil society, international observers and voters themselves. This radical new lens reveals that elections are the site of intense moral contestation, which helps to explain why there is such vigourous participation in processes that often seem flawed. Demonstrating the impact of these debates on six decades of electoral practice, they explain why the behaviour of those involved so frequently transgresses national law and international norms, as well as the ways in which such transgressions are evaluated and critiqued - so that despite the purported significance of 'vote-buying', the candidates that spend the most do not always win.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108265836
• Artikelnr.: 62736594

Autorenporträt

Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy and International Development at the University of Birmingham. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Democracy in Africa (2015) and How to Rig an Election (2018), and his research has won a number of prizes including the Frank Cass Award for the best article in Democratization (2015) and the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a midcareer scholar (2019) from the UK Political Studies Association. He is the founding editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics and the founder of www.democracyinafrica.org.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Writing African elections; 1. Towards a moral economy of
elections in Africa; 2. Elections, states and citizens: a history of the
ballot in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda; Part I. Promoting Civic Virtue: National
Exercises: 3. Making states and citizens through the ballot; 4. The eyes of
the world are upon us: the aspirations and limitations of international
election observation; 5. Creating democrats: Civil society and voter
education; Part II. The Moral Economy in Action: 6. Performing virtue:
politicians, leadership and election campaigns; 7. Navigating multiple
moralities: popular expectations and experiences of the polls; 9.
Conclusion: the electoral fallacy revisited.