Power Politics in Zimbabwe
  • 2014/281 pages

Power Politics in Zimbabwe

Michael Bratton
Hardcover: $75.00
ISBN: 978-1-62637-076-0
Paperback: $28.50
ISBN: 978-1-62637-388-4
Ebook: $28.50
ISBN: 978-1-62637-525-3
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Zimbabwe's July 2013 election brought the country's "inclusive" power-sharing interlude to an end and installed Mugabe and ZANU-PF for yet another—its seventh—term. Why? What explains the resilience of authoritarian rule in Zimbabwe?

Tracing the country's elusive search for political stability across the decades, Michael Bratton offers a careful analysis of the failed power-sharing experiment, an account of its institutional origins, and an explanation of its demise. In the process, he explores key challenges of political transition: constitution making, elections, security-sector reform, and transitional justice.
Michael Bratton is University Distinguished Professor of political science and African studies at Michigan State University. His numerous publications include, most recently, Voting and Democratic Citizenship in Africa and Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa (with Robert Mattes and E. Gyimah-Boadi).

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