This article traces the evolution of corruption as a political issue in Tanzania and evaluates the efforts of the Mkapa administration to control it. Corruptionis conceptualized as embedded in societal, …

Ethnic federalism, fiscal reform, development and democracy in Ethiopia

MSU: Michigan State University · 2002

Ethiopia has embarked upon what it claims to be a novel experiment in "ethnic federalism". The ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front has asserted that it is intent on forthrightly …

The multiparty reform process in Tanzania

MSU: Michigan State University · 2002

The debate on the form and content of Tanzania's constitution and democracy has been on the agenda throughout the four decades of independence. In the recent process of transition since …

Election monitoring and observation in Zimbabwe

MSU: Michigan State University · 2002

Despite the pervasive trend of election monitoring and observation, especially in Eastern Europe and Africa since the early 1990s, there has been little, if any, academic discourse on this subject. …

Transitions from democracy in Nigeria

MSU: Michigan State University · 2002

Two "fully fledged" democratic administrations in Nigeria have been terminated by military coups d'etat since independence in 1960. Having, in addition ruled for about 30 out of over 40 years …