Nine contributors offer pioneering work on the scope and nature of electoral violence in Africa; investigate the forms electoral violence takes; and analyze the

Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a s

An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.

This book explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It exa