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.

After years of economic and social crisis, Zimbabweans went to the polls in March 2008 to vote for members of parliament, local government councillors and a pre

Explores the history and significance of election violence in Zimbabwe from the 1980s to the present day.