APSA Africa Project



2009 Project Research 2009 Project Research

These unpublished research papers have been produced by the participants of the APSA Africa Workshops. They are updated quarterly and also appear in the Workshop Proceedings (the official record) of each annual workshop. Please cite only with author's permission

2009: WORKSHOP ON ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY (Accra, Ghana, June 21-July 10)

James Arrey Abangma: Some Hints on Combatting Election Fraud in Cameroon After the Meeting Held in Bameda from March 2 – 12, 2007

Henry Amadi Odongo: “Kenya’s Grand Coalition Government: An Agent of Change or Status-Quo Maintenance?”

Jasper Ayelazuno: The 2008 Ghanaian Elections: A Model that Unraveled?

Sulaiman Balarabe-Kura: Electoral System, Institutional Designs and Political Party Institutionalisation in Nigeria

Mohammad Bakari: Obstacles to Political Reconciliation in a Semi-Autonomous Polity:  The Case of Zanzibar   

Maame Gyekye-Jandoh: Election Observation Practices and General Elections in Ghana under the Fourth Republic: Enhancing Government Legitimacy

Victor Adefemi Isumonah: The Fear of Ethnic Domination and Electoral Democracy in Nigeria

Eliud Nyawino Biego Lubanda: Exploring Rural Politics in Kenya: Change in Voter Behaviour in Aldai

Ziblim Iddi: Peace Education and Election-Related Violence in Ghana's 2008 General Elections

Henry Kam Kah: Socio-Cultural Groupings and the Gender Phenomenon in Local Elections in Cameroon since the 1990s

Peter O. Mbah: Militarization of Elections in a Global periphery: The State of Security and Human Rights in Nigeria 2003 and 2007 Elections  

Clive J. Napier: Africa's Constitutional Renewal?  Stock Taking in the 21st Century

Cornelius Ncube: Contextualising Civil Society and Social Change in Gramscian Dialectics

Nna-Emeka Chibueze Okereke: Anambra Political Crisis as an Opensore of a Democracy

Freedom C. Onuoha: Yet Unanswered? The Youth and Gender Questions in a Decade of Democratic Governance in Nigeria

Mashood Omutosho: Electoral Violence and Conflict in Nigeria: The 2007 Elections and the Challenges of Democratisation  

El Hassan Ould Ahmed: Promoting Democracy in Africa: A Case Study Mauritania

Abdoul Karim Saidou: Electoral system and democratic instability in Niger

Bertrand Tchantcho: My on-going research project

Sita Zougouri: Behind the development showcase: Forest management and local power in Burkina Faso
 
Jaimie Bleck: Decentralized Social Services and Electoral Participation in Nascent Democracies

Kristin Michelitch: Do Elections Manipulate Citizens' Everyday Economic Decisions? Field Experiments in Ghana

Sybille Ngo Nyeck: Mobilizing Against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media and Paranoia in Cameroon