Electoral Integrity and Democratic Legitimacy in Africa
Electoral Integrity and Democratic Legitimacy in Africa
This chapter examines whether elections change citizen's attitudes and behaviors toward democracy, and whether what matters in this process is repeated experience of elections over time, or whether the integrity of contests also matters. The chapter concludes that elections do matter by shaping how Africans see democracy working and that the quality of the contests shapes these attitudes, not just repeated experience of elections.
Keywords: democracy, Africa, elections, electoral integrity
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .