This paper draws on the recent experience of Kenya and Zimbabwe to demonstrate how power-sharing has played out in Africa. Although the two cases share some superficial similarities, variation in the strength and disposition of key veto players generated radically different contexts that shaped the feasibility and impact of unity government. Explaining the number and attitude of veto players requires a comparative analysis of the evolution of civil-military and intra-elite relations. In Zimbabwe, the exclusionary use of violence and rhetoric, together with the militarisation of politics, created far greater barriers to genuine power-sharing, resulting in the politics of continuity. These veto players were less significant in the Kenyan case...
Power sharing institutions are currently being established to end war and lay the foundations for pe...
Research on power-sharing in Africa remains silent on the effects of national peace agreements on th...
Power-sharing arrangements have become the default tool of international actors to resolve a vast r...
This paper draws on the recent experience of Kenya and Zimbabwe to demonstrate how power-sharing has...
Given the increasing use of power-sharing arrangements to manage a wide range of political crises ov...
This paper uses Hartzell and Hoddie’s four dimensions of power-sharing to analyse the implementation...
Power-sharing has become a common strategy to resolve political conflicts in Africa. However, it has...
Power sharing arrangements have been recurrent in the African continent since the end of the Cold Wa...
How do local power-sharing arrangements affect levels of ethnopolitical hostility? The introduction ...
Globally, power-sharing has become an international policy approach to mitigating conflict in ethnic...
After the Zanzibar presidential elections in October 2010 a Government of National Unity (GNU), inco...
Political contestation through elections is a vital tenet of democracy. In elections, the electorate...
Power sharing and political inclusion have long been espoused as solutions for states where ethnic,...
Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve t...
Since the reinstatement of multiparty politics in Zanzibar, political conflict between the ruling pa...
Power sharing institutions are currently being established to end war and lay the foundations for pe...
Research on power-sharing in Africa remains silent on the effects of national peace agreements on th...
Power-sharing arrangements have become the default tool of international actors to resolve a vast r...
This paper draws on the recent experience of Kenya and Zimbabwe to demonstrate how power-sharing has...
Given the increasing use of power-sharing arrangements to manage a wide range of political crises ov...
This paper uses Hartzell and Hoddie’s four dimensions of power-sharing to analyse the implementation...
Power-sharing has become a common strategy to resolve political conflicts in Africa. However, it has...
Power sharing arrangements have been recurrent in the African continent since the end of the Cold Wa...
How do local power-sharing arrangements affect levels of ethnopolitical hostility? The introduction ...
Globally, power-sharing has become an international policy approach to mitigating conflict in ethnic...
After the Zanzibar presidential elections in October 2010 a Government of National Unity (GNU), inco...
Political contestation through elections is a vital tenet of democracy. In elections, the electorate...
Power sharing and political inclusion have long been espoused as solutions for states where ethnic,...
Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve t...
Since the reinstatement of multiparty politics in Zanzibar, political conflict between the ruling pa...
Power sharing institutions are currently being established to end war and lay the foundations for pe...
Research on power-sharing in Africa remains silent on the effects of national peace agreements on th...
Power-sharing arrangements have become the default tool of international actors to resolve a vast r...