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Provides the first comparative regional assessment and thematic contribution to Africa's electoral legal landscape
Explores issues facing legal reforms on elections, existing constitutional provisions and international law positions
Compares elections in some of Africa's leading democratic countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Sierra Leone
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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International and Constitutional, Legislative and Institutional Frame on Elections in Africa
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Political Party Financing, Code of Conduct and Judicalization in Election in Africa
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Politics, Citizenship, Ethnicity and Violence in Election in Africa
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Conclusions
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About this book
Keywords
- Elections in Africa
- Young people and politics
- Law
- violence
- Women and elections
- voting behaviour
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
About the author
Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai is Head of the Department of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sierra Leone. He is also a civil society practitioner working on elections and leading coalitions. He is a pro-democracy activist and was chair of the Political Affairs Cluster of the African Union’s Economic Social and Cultural Council monitored several elections in Africa. He led the legal review process of Sierra Leone's election laws leading to the 2023 elections.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electoral Politics, Laws and Ethnicity in Africa
Authors: Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34136-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34135-9Published: 25 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34138-0Due: 08 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34136-6Published: 24 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 270
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Electoral Politics, African Politics, Politics and Gender