Browsing Department of Government by Author "Rakner, Lise"

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Don’t Touch My Constitution! Civil Society Resistance to Democratic Backsliding in Africa's Pluralist Regimes

Rakner, Lise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

Analyzing civil society resistance to elite-led democratic backsliding in Africa, the article argues that the non-militant, civil society-based transitions experienced in the 1990s left a legacy of a pro-democracy cleavage ...
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies

Rakner, Lise; Arriola, Leonardo; Davies, Justine Ina; Choi, Danny; Phillips, Melanie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced by campaign costs tied to the clientelistic ...