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How to rig an election / Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:39:55 +0900

Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas. How to rig an election. Updated edition, Yale University Press; Yale University Press, 2024; ©2024. ISBN:9780300279467; 0300279469
"Contrary to popular belief, authoritarian leaders who hold elections are generally able to remain in power for longer. Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas show us how they do so, exploring election-rigging strategies including gerrymandering and ballot-box stuffing, voter suppression, and fake news. Documenting pseudo-democratic methods from Argentina and Zimbabwe to Brazil, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States, they offer a sobering view of corrupted political process--while offering hope for future solutions"--

The Oxford encyclopedia of African politics / Nic Cheeseman, editor in chief.

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 19:08:22 +0900

Nic Cheeseman, editor in chief.. The Oxford encyclopedia of African politics. First edition., Oxford University Press, 2020., Oxford research encyclopedia of politics. ISBN:0190632348; 9780190667610; 0190667613; 9780190667764; 0190667761; 9780190089047; 0190089040
"African politics is one of the most vibrant and dynamic areas of research, and the fastest growing. In addition to important debates around the potential for democratic consolidations, the drivers of ethnic violence, the barriers to development, and the role of foreign powers, researchers are engaged in an important conversation about the need to "decolonize" African studies and to make sure that we study Africa ethically. This volume - the largest ever published on African politics - provides essential insights into these all of questions and many many more. Bringing together world leading researchers from Africa, the United States and Europe, it features cutting-edge chapters on a remarkably broad range of topics including helpful chapters on key methodologies and approaches as well as all of the major topics in the discipline. Each clearly written piece provides a concise summary of the state of the art before drawing on new ideas and evidence to push the debate forward. The volume is therefore essential reading for both first time students and established researchers. Curated by a widely respected team of editors, particular areas of strength include: political institutions; identity politics and the significance of ethnicity and religion; the African state and its strengths and weaknesses; development politics; economic policy and management; ideas and ideologies; international relations and regional politics; conflict, violence and civil war; political and social movements; media and political communication; elections and democracy; research methods and approaches; and, ethics and the politics of research"--

The moral economy of elections in Africa : democracy, voting, and virtue / Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:25:11 +0900

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis. The moral economy of elections in Africa : democracy, voting, and virtue. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN:9781108417235; 9781108404723
"Taken together, reciprocity, commonality and preference make for a sense of moral virtue that is rooted in privileged relationships between those who share some form of collective identity. Claims for assistance and support based on this kind of reciprocity are seen not only to have power but also to be legitimate, for patrimonialism is a moral force. As Lonsdale (1992b) has argued of the Kikuyu community in Kenya, leaders are expected to give back to the community, but not because there is any notion of a deserving poor. While 'wealth ineluctably incurred obligations' (1992b: 5), the moral purchase of claims on the wealthy come not from a shared belief in the virtue of redistributing wealth per se, but from the fact that the individuals concerned were embedded within a specific ethnic and moral community and were therefore subject to an established set of reciprocal expectations. At the same time, patrimonial virtue is internally contested. Personal ties, ethnicity and locality do not always pull in the same direction; claims or obligations may arise from shared school experience or involvement in a business organization or a club. These ties may enable electoral work; a candidate may raise campaign funds from former schoolmates (their OBs and OGs, as Ugandans call them) or fellow businessmen (Vokes 2016). But politicians, and voters, may have to weigh the relative significance of different kinds of tie: is it proper to trust, or help, other people from your ethnic group more than people who went to the same school? Your kin, rather than your neighbours? The sense that you must not let someone down - and its corollary, the belief that someone owes you something - is a powerful force, but patrimonial morality is chronically jealous: each patron therefore lives in constant fear of being replaced as a result of not having been attentive enough to their supporters' needs, and voters readily suspect theirMPof favouring immediate kin over the wider ethnic group, or - worst of all - of forgetting voters and becoming part of an exclusive elite. We use the term 'patrimonial' and not the more common 'neopatrimonial' here for three main reasons. First, our aim is to describe different schools of thought and so our focus is on ideas and the conceptions of virtue that they are rooted in, rather than seeking to define or identify"--

The Oxford handbook of Kenyan politics / edited by Nic Cheeseman, Karuti Kanyinga, and Gabrielle Lynch.

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:32:33 +0900

edited by Nic Cheeseman, Karuti Kanyinga, and Gabrielle Lynch.. The Oxford handbook of Kenyan politics. First edition., Oxford University Press, 2020.. ISBN:9780198815693; 0198815697
"Kenya is one of the most politically dynamic and influential countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, it is known in equal measure as a country that has experienced great highs and tragic lows. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kenya was seen as a "success story" of development in the periphery, and also led the way in terms of democratic breakthroughs in 2010 when a new constitution devolved power and placed new constraints on the president. However, the country has also makes international headlines for the kind of political instability that occurs when electoral violence is expressed along ethnic lines, such as during the "Kenya crisis" of 2007/08 when over 1,000 people lost their lives and almost 700,000 were displaced. This Handbook explains these developments and many more, drawing together 50 specially commissioned chapters by leading researchers. The chapters they have contributed address a range of essential topics including the legacy of colonial rule, ethnicity, land politics, devolution, the constitution, elections, democracy, foreign aid, the informal economy, civil society, human right, the International Criminal Court, the rise of China, economic policy, electoral violence, and the impact of mobile phone technology. In addition to covering some of the most important debates about Kenyan politics, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of Kenyan history from 1930 to the present day and features a set of chapters that review the impact of devolution on regional politics in every part of the country"--

How to rig an election / Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas.

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:58:30 +0900

Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas.. How to rig an election. Yale University Press; Yale University Press, [2018]. ISBN:9780300204438; 0300204434
In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.

African politics / edited by Nic Cheeseman.

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:59:12 +0900

edited by Nic Cheeseman.. African politics. Routledge; Routledge, 2016.; ©2016, Critical concepts in political science. ISBN:9781138901667; 1138901660; 9781138901674; 1138901679; 9781138901681; 1138901687; 9781138901698; 1138901695

Institutions and democracy in Africa : how the rules of the game shape political developments / edited by Nic Cheeseman.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:34:59 +0900

edited by Nic Cheeseman.. Institutions and democracy in Africa : how the rules of the game shape political developments. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press, 2018.. ISBN:9781107148246; 1107148243; 9781316602553; 1316602559
"Historically, African political institutions such as constitutions, legislatures and judiciaries have been seen as weak and vulnerable to manipulation, leading some to claim that the continent is 'institutionless'. However, recent developments including the consolidation of presidential term limits in a number of countries demonstrate that this depiction is no longer tenable. By drawing attention to how institutions can shape the practice of politics, this book demonstrates that electoral commissions, economic regulations and systems of land tenure are vital to our understanding of contemporary Africa. A series of cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars explain how the rules of the game shape political developments across the continent, from Kenya to Nigeria and from Benin to South Africa. In chapters that cover bureaucracies, constitutions, elections, political parties, the police and more, the authors argue that a new research agenda is required if we are to better understand the process of democratisation."--