Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis

The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa

Democracy, Voting and Virtue

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Produktbeschreibung

Elections have long been seen as a way to foster democracy, development and security in Africa. This study of elections in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda over the last sixty years offers a radical approach to look at the ideas and behavior of participants in elections to demonstrate why elections have not transformed politics as was hoped.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781108417235
• ISBN-10: 110841723X
• Artikelnr.: 60065069

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.