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2013-01
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© 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Accepted
Manuscript of an article published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
2013, available online at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14662043.2013.752176#.UiXup6ziiVo
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The momentous 2005 Liberian elections followed a devastating civil war.
Remarkably, the winner of the presidential race was a woman, Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, and the second-placed was a footballer, George Weah.
In addition, in stark contrast to many African elections in particular
those in neighbouring Sierra Leone, voting patterns were fragmented:
voters often chose President, Senators and Representatives from
different parties or independents. Much can be explained by a
remarkably level playing-field delivered by an interim coalition
government providing no incumbent. In 2011, the Johnson-Sirleaf
incumbency stood to significantly change the dynamics. This article
seeks to discern whether Liberian elections maintain their unusual
patterns, whether Liberia has joined the ranks of African patron-clientelist,
dominant-party or two-party systems, in particular compared
to that of Sierra Leone, or whether there are new twists in its democratic
development.
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Harris, D. and Lewis, T. (2013). Liberia in 2011: Still Ploughing its own Democratic Furrow? Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 76-96.
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Full text of the article was made available on the 1st March 2015 at the end of the publisher's embargo.