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

How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actu

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

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose