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Liberia’s Run-up to 2017: Continuity and Change in a Long History of Electoral Politics
Pailey, R.N.
Pailey, R.N.
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2017-05-04
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If successfully orchestrated, the October 2017 elections in Liberia will mark the first time in recent memory when a democratically elected Liberian president – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – will hand over power to a similarly elected head of state. This is very likely to be a close election and our Briefing investigates changes and continuities in the candidates, political parties, electoral processes and the workings of the Liberian state at a watershed moment in a long and shifting democratic history.
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Pailey RN and Harris D (2017) Liberia’s run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics. Review of African Political Economy. 44(152): 322-335.
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