Institutions and the State in Africa Working Group
Institutions | State
Renata  Serra,  UF. Do  Stakeholder  Meetings  Make  a  Difference?  Preliminary  Findings  from  a Pilot  Project  in  Rwanda.  3:00pm
Institutions | State
Institutions | State Sebastian Elischer,  UF. Post-Âmilitary Coup Protest and its Consequences. Findings from  Guinea and  Côte d'Ivoire. November 2 | 3:00pm EST. Join Via Zoom. Recent scholarship argues that post-Cold War military coups do not necessarily result in military dictatorship. In some countries the armed forces have paved the way for competitive elections between civilian-led political parties, …
Institutions | State Working Group
Nicholas N. Kerr, UF. "Election Commissions & Opposition Behavior in Africa’s Multiparty Regimes: Does Institutional Performance Matter for Election Boycotts and Losers’ Compliance?" March 15 | 3:00pm EST Register to attend on Zoom. As the second wave of democratization swept through Africa in the early 1990s, scholars and policymakers heralded independent election commissions (ECs) as …
Institutions | State Working Group
Margaret Ariotti, Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia. Beyond the Big Man: Executive-Legislative Politics in African Democracies. April 12 | 3:00pm EDT Attend on Zoom. Description What explains the formation of coalition governments in African democracies? Despite the vast literature on government formation in Europe and Latin America, very little is known about …