Elections in Museveni's Uganda - Couverture souple

 
9780367891237: Elections in Museveni's Uganda

Synopsis

Uganda's 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another landslide, took place in an atmosphere of patronage, coercion and fraud. But is this diagnosis sufficient to understand the processes of voting and regime maintenance in Uganda today? Based on a series of detailed case studies from across Uganda, this book provides a more nuanced and complex picture of what the Museveni regime is, and how it keeps winning elections. Whilst not denying that various electoral malpractices are systemic to the regime's survival, the authors find that these cannot be extricated from Uganda's history, its wider social realities, and its local political cultures in which the NRM has become so embedded. In so doing, the authors - who include anthropologists, development specialists, historians, geographers, and political-scientists - develop new ways of thinking about the meaning of voting and elections in non-democratic Uganda, and elsewhere. This edition was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sam Wilkins is a DPhil candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK.

Richard Vokes is a senior lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1138300128 ISBN 13 :  9781138300125
Editeur : Routledge, 2017
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