Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.

Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.

Drawing on classic and contemporary scholarship and empirical analysis of elections and public expenditures in 80 countries, the author argues for the existence

Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder wheth